Is __ne__ method autogenerated?

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri Dec 7 01:47:10 EST 2012


On Thursday, December 6, 2012, INADA Naoki wrote:

> The reference says:
>
>   The truth of x==y does not imply that x!=y is false.
>   Accordingly, when defining __eq__(), one should also
>   define __ne__() so that the operators will behave as expected.
>
> (http://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__eq__)
>
> But I saw different behavior on 3.3:
> https://gist.github.com/4231096
>
> Could anyone teach me what happen about my code?
>

The reference is not completely accurate in this case. See
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4395
"Document auto __ne__ generation; [...]"


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