[issue38005] Coercing strings and non-integer numbers to interpreter ID and channel ID

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

Regardless of the intention of the _xx... author, intransitive equality is objectionable as it violates the assumption of sets and dicts.  We went through this before with decimal.Decimal when the original implementation had 1.0 == 1 == Decimal(1) but 1.0 != Decimal(1).  The latter was fixed.  Here, I think the fix should be to not make the id be equal to everything it can be derived from.

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