Classes and modules are singletons?

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Mar 6, 3:24 pm, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article <13sulsu4nbr2... at corp.supernews.com>,
> Steven D'Aprano  <st... at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
> >I accept my question about classes being singletons is not well-formed,
> >not even in my own mind. I guess one way of asking is, for any two class
> >objects (not instances) C1 and C2, does "C1 == C2" imply "C1 is C2"?
>
> Even that stricture fails under the presence of metaclasses.  ;-)  But
> answering your real question, I don't remember off-hand the required
> sequence, but it is possible to import a class two different ways such
> that the classes are not the object.  This can cause problems with e.g.
> pickle.  Within a single module, given a class defined only once within
> that module, the class will be a singleton.
> --
> Aahz (a... at pythoncraft.com)           <*>        http://www.pythoncraft.com/
>
> "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of    
> indirection."  --Butler Lampson

I'd like to question the source of the definition of C.__eq__.

Observation:

>>> class C: pass
...
>>> class D: pass
...
>>> C== D
False

What is different about them?  I've created two empty classes, nothing
more.