sets.Set doesn't honour __eq__

[David Vaughan]

Matteo Dell'Amico wrote:
> 
> class caseless_string(str):
>      """Strings, but equality ignores case."""
>      def __eq__(self, other):
>          return str.__eq__(self.lower(), other.lower())
>      def __hash__(self):
>          return str.__hash__(self.lower())

That's great.  Thanks!

> (btw, why do you do the _base trick?)

The _base is to allow for unicode.  I had removed
some lines for clarity.  I'm including
support for Windows filenames (hence the case-
insensitive strings).  So I've recycled the start of
Jason Orendorff's excellent path module:


# Pre-2.3 support.  Are unicode filenames supported?
_base = str
try:
    if os.path.supports_unicode_filenames:
        _base = unicode
except AttributeError:
    pass


Or is it conventional to assume v2.3 these days?

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David Vaughan



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