New submission from Maytag Metalark:
Performing a logical negation (`not`) on `NotImplemented` should return
`NotImplemented`. Currently, it returns `False`.
A common pattern for implementing __eq__ and __ne__ is to implement the
comparison in __eq__, and simply delegate to it in __ne__ with a negation.
However, if two values are incomparable, then __eq__ and __ne__ should both
return NotImplemented. If you try to negate NotImplemented in __ne__, you will
end up with a value of False, instead of NotImplemented, so you have to
specifically test for this case.
For instance, here is how one would write the code now:
def __ne__(self, other):
eq = self.__eq__(other)
if eq is NotImplemented:
return NotImplemented
return not eq
Where as the following would be simpler, and could be used if this change was
made:
def __ne__(self, other):
return not self.__eq__(other)
This is not simply sugar to reduce typing, it is safer because some coders may
forget about NotImplemented and implement __ne__ as shown in the second example
anyway, which is not actually correct with the current behavior.
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messages: 231996
nosy: Brian.Mearns
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Logical Negation of NotImplemented
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7
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