On 11/6/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:58 PM 11/6/2005 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >The main way this breaks down is when comparing objects of different > >types. While most comparisons typically are defined in terms of > >comparisons on simpler or contained objects, two objects of different > >types that happen to have the same "key" shouldn't necessarily be > >considered equal. > > When I use this pattern, I often just include the object's type in the > key. (I call it the 'hashcmp' value, but otherwise it's the same pattern.)
But how do you make that work with subclassing? (I'm guessing your answer is that you don't. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
