"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BJörn Lindqvist wrote: >> How would the value equality operator deal with recursive objects? >> >> class Foo: >> def __init__(self): >> self.foo = self >> >> Seems to me that it would take atleast some special-casing to get >> Foo() == Foo() to evalute to True in this case... > > This is sort-of supported today: > > >>> a=[] > >>> a.append(a) > >>> b=[] > >>> b.append(b) > >>> a == b > True
Uh, I think this changed in Python 2.4: >>> a = [] >>> a.append(a) >>> b = [] >>> b.append(b) >>> a == b Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp Cheers, mwh -- First of all, email me your AOL password as a security measure. You may find that won't be able to connect to the 'net for a while. This is normal. The next thing to do is turn your computer upside down and shake it to reboot it. -- Darren Tucker, asr _______________________________________________ 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
