For the purposes of a little test utility that we use, I need an object that evaluates as equal to anything. (I realise that this is a bad idea in some ways, breaking the equals/hashcode invariant and so forth, but I'm hoping that I can get away with it in this case.) It seems a simple enough task at first:
>>> class EqualAnything(object): ... def __eq__(self, other): ... return True ... >>> spam = EqualAnything() >>> spam == 1 True >>> spam == "hello!" True >>> spam == datetime.datetime.now() True >>> 1 == spam True >>> "hello!" == spam True But... >>> datetime.datetime.now() == spam False I'm fairly sure that I know what is going on here - the left hand side object is getting first stab at the equality test, and understandably, it's saying "Nah". But is there anything that I can do about it? -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
