Rich comparison methods don't work in sets?
Matthew Wilson
matt at tplus1.com
Fri Jun 19 15:26:03 EDT 2009
On Fri 19 Jun 2009 03:02:44 PM EDT, Gustavo Narea wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I've noticed that if I have a class with so-called "rich comparison"
> methods
> (__eq__, __ne__, etc.), when its instances are included in a set,
> set.__contains__/__eq__ won't call the .__eq__ method of the elements
> and thus
> the code below:
> """
> obj1 = RichComparisonClass()
> obj2 = RichComparisonClass()
What does
>>> obj1 is obj2
return? I don't know anything about set internals.
Matt
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