Python interpreter bug

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Oct 7 09:56:16 EDT 2005


alainpoint at yahoo.fr wrote:
> Sorry Fredrik but I don't understand. Just comment out the assert and
> you have different results depending on whether an unrelated sort
> function is defined.
> This seems weird to me !
> 
Perhaps you don't understand what's going on. The test

     obj in excluded

is succeeding for all your objects because all instances of the OBJ 
class compare equal, and so the assert is failing for the ones that 
don;t actually appear in the "excluded" list.

regards
  Steve
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