Fuzzyman wrote: > I'm not familiar with the C basic datatypes - I assume it has an array > or list like object. > > Would it contain a sequence of poitners to the members ? In which case > they would only be equal if the pointers are the same. > > In this case : > > a = ['some string'] > b = ['somestring'] > a == b > False (probably) >
Oops... definitely False unless it is corrected to : a = ['some string'] b = ['some string'] a == b False (probably) All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > Incorrectly using Python syntax for a C example of course :-) > > All the best, > > Fuzzyman > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
