[Python-Dev] cmp(x,x)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 18 21:39:04 EDT 2004


Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>:

> Unless there are serious objections I suggest to (i.e. I plan to) remove the
> short-cut in PyObject_RichCompareBool() -- performance is probably not an
> issue here -- and then review all built-in comparison methods and make sure
> that they return "equal" for identical objects.

Sounds right to me.

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