Counterintuitive Python behavior

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Greg Weeks || Wed 17 Apr 2002 09:15:58a:

> There should have been an operator in Python that says when objects
> are conceptually the same.  For the moment, call it "eq".  The
> following would hold:
> 
>     3 eq 3
>     not (3 eq 4)
>     a eq a          # PROVIDED a HAS A VALUE
> [etc, etc]

Well, if a is defined, a has a value. So this is either true or a 
NameError (?). Or do you mean if a is None, a eq a should be false?


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