[XML-SIG] DOM Nodes: Identity test

[Paul Prescod]

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
> 
>         I've been wondering about that myself.  We don't want to
> overload __cmp__ to do this, because Python comparisions are usually
> done by value; 

We could agree that the only by-value check that makes sense is the
identity check. This is the same as saying that the location of a node in
the tree is part of its value. 

I note that the default "==" behaviour for new Python classes is to use
the identity so there are probably dozens of Python classes in the
standard distribution with this behaviour.

>>> class A:
...    pass
...
>>> A()==A()
0

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