[Python-checkins] bpo-42344: Improve pseudo implementation for SimpleNamespace (GH-23264) (GH-23270)

[ericvsmith]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4defeb007195d2d17ea404b0b6291d1d233010f4
commit: 4defeb007195d2d17ea404b0b6291d1d233010f4
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ericvsmith <ericvsmith at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2020-11-13T13:19:05-05:00
summary:

bpo-42344: Improve pseudo implementation for SimpleNamespace (GH-23264) (GH-23270)

(cherry picked from commit bbeb2d266d6fc1ca9778726d0397d9d6f7a946e3)

Co-authored-by: Jürgen Gmach <juergen.gmach at googlemail.com>

Co-authored-by: Jürgen Gmach <juergen.gmach at googlemail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/types.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst
index 5d68c6852678c..0fe3822fa542e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/types.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/types.rst
@@ -384,7 +384,9 @@ Additional Utility Classes and Functions
                return "{}({})".format(type(self).__name__, ", ".join(items))
 
            def __eq__(self, other):
-               return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
+               if isinstance(self, SimpleNamespace) and isinstance(other, SimpleNamespace):
+                  return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
+               return NotImplemented
 
    ``SimpleNamespace`` may be useful as a replacement for ``class NS: pass``.
    However, for a structured record type use :func:`~collections.namedtuple`