RichCompare and RichCompareBool
Mark Dickinson
dickinsm at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 11:42:10 EDT 2009
On Mar 9, 3:22 pm, Aaron Brady <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> My complaint was that the docs for the function, as well as its name,
> are misleading. RichCompareBool should not take the short cut, and "x
> in [x]" should call something else that does. (I am not arguing
> against the decided behavior of "x in [x]", btw. There's no clear
> case IMO.)
I agree the docs are misleading. A doc patch would very likely
be accepted. Changing the behaviour or name of
PyObject_RichCompareBool would be trickier, since
that would risk breaking 3rd party extensions that depend
on the current behaviour.
Mark
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