is implemented with id ?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Thu Sep 6 08:16:36 EDT 2012


In article <50484643$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:27:44 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> > On 9/5/2012 8:48 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> > 
> >  > and "a==True" should be automatically changed into memory comparison.
> > 
> > I have no idea what that means.
> 
> I interpret this as meaning that "a == True" should be special-cased by 
> the interpreter as "a is True" instead of calling a.__eq__.

That would break classes which provide their own __eq__() method.



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