On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:08:38 +0100, Claudio Grondi wrote: > The point is to find a way to create in Python two indentifiers a and b > without manipulating any of the __eq__ and to __eq__ related functions > in a way, that the simple > if a==b: print 'a==b' > statement results in an endless loop.
Why would you want to? > To my knowledge this is not possible to achieve in C, but is probably > achievable in Python. I doubt it. The closest I can think of is something like this: a = [] a.append(a) b = [] b.append(b) a == b which I'm told used to cause an endless loop in early versions of Python, but now simply returns True. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
