On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 01:20, Matthias Bussonnier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> > Are there other such classes?
>
[snip]

> ... stuff, let's pick a few:
>
> sympy.physics.optics.Medium:
>
>     def __eq__(self, other):
>         return self.refractive_index == other.refractive_index
>
> Will crash with None has no attribute refractive_index,
>

I think that particular __eq__ method is buggy. There should be a general
expectation that __eq__ can be used with unexpected types and should return
NotImplemented or False rather than raise an exception.


Oscar
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