[pypy-issue] [issue847] Old style class equality test failure

[Armin Rigo]

Armin Rigo <armin.rigo at gmail.com> added the comment:

One problem is that the comparison operators behave subtly differently than the
other operations; that's why these three lines don't work for them.

For example, if class Base defines __eq__, and class Sub(Base) doesn't, then
Base() == Sub() will still be called first with the arguments switched; this is
different from e.g. __add__.

And of course this rule applies only to new-style classes, not to old-style
classes.  For old-style classes, instead, we have a 3rd version of the rule,
which is that the order to try both operations is never reversed by subclassing
relationships between operands.

I checked in something that seems to make my hopefully exhaustive tests happy...

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