Enumeration idioms: Values from different enumerations

[Ben Finney]

eswald at gmail.com writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> Is there some behaviour other than "evaluate to False" or "raise an
>> exception", that could indicate "not comparable"?
>
> Yes: return NotImplemented.  Note that the == operator automagically
> returns False in this case.
>
>     >>> "spam".__eq__("spam")
>     True
>     >>> "spam".__eq__("ham")
>     False
>     >>> "spam".__eq__(23)
>     NotImplemented
>
> This way, the user could explicitly call __eq__ and check for
> NotImplemented if he desires the exceptional behavior.

Thanks, I was unaware of the standard usage of NotImplemented. That
seems like a sensible solution.

    <URL:http://docs.python.org/ref/types.html#l2h-29>

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