rdblue commented on a change in pull request #4016:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4016#discussion_r807057475



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File path: python/src/iceberg/types.py
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@@ -93,21 +121,37 @@ def precision(self) -> int:
     def scale(self) -> int:
         return self._scale
 
-    def __eq__(self, other):
-        if type(self) is type(other):
-            return self.precision == other.precision and self.scale == 
other.scale
-        return False
 
+class NestedField(IcebergType):
+    """This represents a field of a struct, a map key, a map value, or a list 
element. This is where field IDs, names, docs, and nullability are tracked."""
+
+    _instances: Dict[Tuple[bool, int, str, IcebergType, Optional[str]], 
"NestedField"] = {}
+
+    def __new__(

Review comment:
       Testing this out in ipython, I missed a couple args and got this error 
message:
   
   ```
   __new__() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'name' and 'field_type'
   ```
   
   Is there a way to improve that? Or is that helpful enough?




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