__eq__ and __ne__
Shane Hathaway
shane at ZOPE.COM
Tue Jul 8 12:08:22 EDT 2003
Tim Peters wrote:
> Since the richcmp operators aren't constrained to return scalars, an attempt
> to define one in terms of the others seemed futile. Instead they're 6
> independent methods.
Ok. Thanks for finding the docs. I guess I'll stick to my boilerplate
code. I think some guidance should be added to the Python docs, though,
explaining that whenever you define __eq__, you very likely ought to
define __ne__ also.
Shane
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