how to test for atomicity/mutability/hashability?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

kj <no.email at please.post> writes:

> I want to implement a test t() that will return True if its two
> arguments are "completely" different.  By this I mean that they
> don't share any "non-atomic" component.  E.g., if
>
> a = [0, 1]
> b = [0, 1]
> c = [2, 3]
> d = [2, 3]
>
> A = (a, c, 0)
> B = (a, d, 1)
> C = (b, d, 0)
>
> The desired test t() would yield:
>
> t(A, B) -> False (A and B share the mutable component a)
> t(A, C) -> True (a =!= c, b =!= d, and 0 is not mutable)
> t(B, C) -> False (B and C share the mutable component d)
>
> (=!= is shorthand with "is not identical to".)
>
> It would facilitate the implementation of t() to have a simple test
> for mutability.  Is there one?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~kj

I think defining mutability is subject to opinion, but here is a first
approximation.


def mutable(obj):
    return obj.__hash__ is None or type(obj).__hash__ == object.__hash__

def t(l1, l2):
    return not any(mutable(x) and x is y for x, y in zip(l1, l2))

a = [0, 1]
b = [0, 1]
c = [2, 3]
d = [2, 3]

A = (a, c, 0)
B = (a, d, 1)
C = (b, d, 0)


>>> t(A, B)
False
>>> t(A, C)
True
>>> t(B, C)
False

-- 
Arnaud