In article <503f8e33$0$30001$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:02:24 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > > Is the implementation smart enough to know that x == y is always False > > if x and y are using different internal representations? > > [...] There may be circumstances where two strings have different > internal representations even though their content is the same If there is a deterministic algorithm which maps string content to representation type, then I don't see how it's possible for two strings with different representation types to have the same content. Could you give me an example of when this might happen? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
