is implemented with id ?

[Ramchandra Apte]

On Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:46:38 UTC+5:30, Roy Smith  wrote:
> In article <50484643$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
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>  Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:27:44 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
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> > > On 9/5/2012 8:48 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
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> > >  > and "a==True" should be automatically changed into memory comparison.
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> > > I have no idea what that means.
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> > I interpret this as meaning that "a == True" should be special-cased by 
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> > the interpreter as "a is True" instead of calling a.__eq__.
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> That would break classes which provide their own __eq__() method.

There is a way of doing this: make True.__req__ = lambda other: self is other