__cmp__ behaviour

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 27 May 2000, Emile van Sebille wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a situation where I want class instances to always
> compare unequal.  I thought I could do it with __cmp__,
> but it appears that it sometimes is short circuited.  Is
> there a way around this?

No. Python first checks for "x is y"

IOW, after  "a = b", "a == b" will always be true. 
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