Using equals operator without changing reference pointer

[Erik Max Francis]

mark.seagoe at gmail.com wrote:

> Is there a way to lock down myInst so that it still refers to the
> original object, and is there some special member that will allow me
> to override the equals operator in this case?  Or is that simply
> blasphemous against everything Python holds sacred?  Certainly there
> is some keyword that I don't know about.

No.  The assignment operator with a bare name on the left hand side is 
not overridable.

You can override attribute access, however, with 
.__getattr__/.__getattribute__.

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