On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Sean Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How many of you use
>
>   1) a == b
>
>  to test for topological equality instead of using
>
>   2) a.equals(b)
>
>  ?
>
>  I think we need to disentangle these operations. 1 is stronger than, but
>  implies 2. 2 does not imply 1. Treating them as the same was, I think, a
>  design mistake that must be fixed.

In MapFish we implement the compare_values method in our Geometry
class (inheriting from SQLAlchemy's TypeEngine class ) and directly
use equals(), so we should be safe.

--
Eric
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