Directly Overloading ==

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <39BECD50.CF19C401 at earthlink.net>,
Terry Hancock  <hancock at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>Can you do it?

Not right now.

>Yes I know you can use __cmp__(), but that's not the same thing (yes, I
>did look it up in the language reference).
>
>IMHO, it would be extremely convenient to overload the "==" operator
>directly, to change it to return a fuzzy logic value indicating the
>*degree* of equality rather than absolute equality (which as with float
>values is pretty pointless with fuzzy logic).

It's on the agenda for the future (see
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0207.html), but its status is
very fuzzy right now.  ;-)  I believe the primary aim of the rich
comparisons project isn't going to support your goals, but from what
I've heard of it, it should be adaptable.
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