Hello, As I remember, __ne__ is implemented by default as *not *__eq__() in the base for hashable classes. Among the reasons to have a separate __ne__ may be implementation efficiency. Another is symmetry and completeness. Read the docs about the minimum a class must to do be: - hashable - sortable On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM Siddharth Prajosh wrote:

Why do we need separate functions for == and != ?

Isn't this supposed to be negation of each other? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5M6RJN... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

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27.12.19 18:00, Siddharth Prajosh пише:

Why do we need separate functions for == and != ?

Isn't this supposed to be negation of each other?

Because __eq__ and __ne__ can return not only bool. For example, for NumPy arrays they return arrays of bools.