sameness/identity

[Greg Weeks]

Greg Weeks (weeks at vitus.scs.agilent.com) wrote:
: That's why you won't find me adding __cmp__ and __hash__ methods to bank
: accounts.

Having written the above, I was pleased to notice recently that for a file
object f:

    hash(f) == id(f)

So, just like Bank_accounts, file objects have the default hash function
and *can* be used as hash table keys.  So, in my slightly incendiary
phrasing, Python "got it right" for file objects.  Python, then, is sending
a mixed message.

Greg