[Python-Dev] Intricacies of calling __eq__
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 19 14:26:26 CET 2014
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:21:16 +0200
Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:09:04 +0200
> > Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would like to point out that instructing people does not really
> >> work. Besides, other examples like this:
> >>
> >> if d[x] >= 3:
> >> d[x] += 1 don't really work.
> >
> > That's a good point. But then, perhaps PyPy should analyze the __eq__
> > method and decide whether it's likely to have side effects or not (the
> > answer can be hard-coded for built-in types such as str).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine.
>
> Ok. But then how is it valid to have "is" fast-path?
What do you mean?
Regards
Antoine.
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