On 11/27/17 10:51 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Following up on this subthread (inline below).
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com
<mailto:e...@trueblade.com>> wrote:
On 11/27/2017 1:04 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 27 November 2017 at 15:04, Greg Ewing
<greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz
<mailto:greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>> wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Perhaps the check could be:
(type(lhs) == type(rhs) or fields(lhs) ==
fields(rhs)) and all
(individual fields match)
I think the types should *always* have to match, or at least
one should be a subclass of the other. Consider:
@dataclass
class Point3d:
x: float
y: float
z: float
@dataclass
class Vector3d:
x: float
y: float
z: float
Points and vectors are different things, and they should never
compare equal, even if they have the same field names and
values.
And I guess if folks actually want more permissive structure-based
matching, that's one of the features that collections.namedtuple
offers that data classes don't.
And in this case you could also do:
astuple(point) == astuple(vector)
Didn't we at one point have something like
isinstance(other, self.__class__) and fields(other) == fields(self) and
<all individual fields match>
(plus some optimization if the types are identical)?
That feels ideal, because it means you can subclass Point just to add
some methods and it will stay comparable, but if you add fields it will
always be unequal.
I don't think we had that before, but it sounds right to me. I think it
could be:
isinstance(other, self.__class__) and len(fields(other)) ==
len(fields(self)) and <all individual fields match>
Since by definition if you're a subclass you'll start with all of the
same fields. So if the len's match, you won't have added any new fields.
That should be sufficiently cheap.
Then the optimized version would be:
(self.__class__ is other.__class__) or (isinstance(other,
self.__class__) and len(fields(other)) == len(fields(self))) and <all
individual fields match>
I'd probably further optimize len(fields(obj)), but that's the general idea.
Eric.
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