In article <931adaf9g...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote: > >>If both are numbers, they are converted to a common type. Otherwise, > >>objects of different types always compare unequal > > That's just the default treatment for unrelated types that don't > know anything about each other. > > I would guess that the list's == method is asking "Is the > other object a list?", and since a subclass of list is also > a list, it's happy and goes on to compare the elements. Well, that explains what's happening, but the behavior still doesn't match the docs. Is this a bug or are the docs wrong? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
