Hi Chris - well maybe we're looking at different questions. Your examples show it is possible to construct a data type where == None does not work. Clearly that is possible.
1. One conclusion is that the possibility of such == means that in general the == None form is unreliable. This is the proper mindset of the Python implementation, where the classes that need to work are practically unlimited, so relying on == would be unreliable as shown. 2. However, I am interested in the mass of ordinary looking programs that use strings, lists, ints, dicts, tuples, functions etc. to solve some problem. It's extremely likely that all of the classes in such a program have a reasonable definitions of ==. So if the programmer knows that, they can use the "== None" form in complete confidence. It works perfectly. It's possible to treat (1) as kind definitive, like that possibility ends the argument. I agree (1) is true, but do not find it convincing about the (2) case. I think (2) is more useful for thinking about Python programs in the world. Best, Nick On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:31 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 6:06 AM Nick Parlante <n...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > > Is there anyone other than me who would like to push for "== None > tolerant" carve out for non-Python-implementation code? > > What you're asking is: Is there anyone other than you who would prefer > for Python to officially encourage people to write buggy and > unreliable code? > > No. > > I'm done discussing this; if you still genuinely think that "== None" > is actually better than "is None", despite all the demonstrations > posted, there's no convincing you. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KE4C6L63CLEG65ZTCTJKCQ6OPMU3UBIA/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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