[Python-Dev] Equality on method objects

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> That said, if there's a use case, I agree that it would be okay with
> basing the equality of x.foo and y.foo on whether x and y are the same
> object, not on whether x==y (consider 0 .__add__ == 0.0 .__add__).

The use case in the issue tracker was maintaining a collection of unique 
callbacks, some of which could be bound methods - the current behaviour 
is actively harmful to that use case, since some of the later callbacks 
may fail to register properly (due to their self comparing equal to 
another instance of the same type that already had its callback method 
in the list).

That same use case is what makes it useful to consider the same method 
on a single object to be equal - there is little point in having a bound 
method like "x.notify" in a callback list twice.

So for myself, +1 on acknowledging issue 1617161 as a bug and fixing it 
as Armin suggests.

Cheers,
Nick.

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