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[Martin Maney]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:21:56AM -0500, Brian Ray wrote:
> Maybe the == inside the method is being overwritten, as well. Or  
> maybe I have this all wrong.

Not exactly wrong, but you'll want to reviews section 3.3.1 of the
Python Reference Manual if you're going to play with redefining
operators.  Relevant to this specific usage:

__lt__(self, other)
__le__(self, other)
__eq__(self, other)
__ne__(self, other)
__gt__(self, other)
__ge__(self, other)
    New in version 2.1. These are the so-called `rich comparison''
    methods, and are called for comparison operators in preference
    to __cmp__()

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