[pypy-dev] Adding support for __eq__ to RPython

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Tyler,

On 29 July 2014 17:45, Tyler Wade <wayedt at gmail.com> wrote:
> While working on my GSoC project to move PyPy’s unicode implementation to utf-8, I added support for __eq__ to RPython.  It was suggested on IRC that this may be controversial and I should write to the mailing list for further feedback.  I’ve pushed my changes to the rpython-__eq__ branch if you’d like to look at the code itself.

How much rewrites would be involved if you did instead:

@specialize.argtype(0,1)
def eq(x, y):
    if isinstance(x, Utf8Str):
        return x.eq(y)
    return x == y

and used the global function eq() instead of the == operator where relevant?


A bientôt,

Armin.