Noam Raphael wrote: > On 11/5/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>More generally, I claim that the current behaviour is better than >>*any* alternative. To refute this claim, you would have to come >>up with an alternative first. >> > > The alternative is to drop the __hash__ method of user-defined classes > (as Guido already decided to do), and to make the default __eq__ > method compare the two objects' __dict__ and slot members. >
no, whether object has an __hash__ and what is the default hashing are different issues. Also all this discussion should have started and lived on comp.lang.python and this is a good point as any to rectify this. > See the thread about default equality operator - Josiah Carlson posted > there a metaclass implementing this equality operator. > > Noam > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/pedronis%40strakt.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
