On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Ken Seehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instance comparison is not necessarily the same as string comparison. > Neither __str__ nor __repr__ are implicitly used at all for comparison.
Ok, I see. > In fact, by default a pair of instances are not equal unless they are the > same object. To define comparison to mean something, you need to define > __cmp__ or __eq__. > > Trivial example of default comparison: > >>>> class C: > ... pass > ... >>>> c = C() >>>> d = C() >>>> c==d > False >>>> c==c > True Thanks. Almar Klein: >but this does not implicitly convert self to a string. You'll have to >do in explicitly: >use "return str(self) == note" instead. Yes, this works. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
