"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>def __eq__(self, other): >>> """x.__eq__(y) <==> x == y""" >>> return (isinstance(other, self.__class__)
Since an instance of a subclass is an instance of a parent class, but not vice versa, I believe you introduce here the assymetry you verify below. >>> and self.__dict__ == other.__dict__) >> This results in an asymmetry: >> >>>>>from bunch import Bunch >>>>>class B(Bunch): pass >> ... >>>>>B().__eq__(Bunch()) >> False >>>>>Bunch().__eq__(B()) >> True Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
