Weirdness comparing strings

[Almar Klein]

Hi,

Better post complete code. I don't see where self.note_name is
defined, and what are these accidentals?

you write:
def has_the_same_name(self, note):
    return self == note

but this does not implicitly convert self to a string. You'll have to
do in explicitly:
use "return str(self) == note" instead.

Hope this helps,
Almar


2008/9/30 Mr. SpOOn <mr.spoon21 at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> I have this piece of code:
>
> class Note():
>      ...
>      ...
>     def has_the_same_name(self, note):
>         return self == note
>
>     def __str__(self):
>         return self.note_name + accidentals[self.accidentals]
>
>     __repr__ = __str__
>
>  if __name__  == '__main__':
>     n = Note('B')
>     n2 = Note('B')
>     print n
>     print n2
>     print n.has_the_same_name(n2)
>
> I'd expect to get "True", because their string representation is
> actually the same, instead the output is:
>
> B
> B
> False
>
> I think I'm missing something stupid. Where am I wrong?
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