Semantics of ==

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Mar 17 18:40:26 EST 2004


Axel Boldt wrote:

> Nowadays, an equality test which detects difference of s and w could
> be defined by comparing the strings pickle.dumps(s) and
> pickle.dumps(w).

But this is a good indication that pickle.dumps(a) == pickle.dumps(b) is
_not_ equivalent to a == b, since your s and w self-referencing lists
are a good example of where the internal structure of the two lists is
not identical but they _are_ equal according to Python's definition of
sequence comparison, as I demonstrated earlier.

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