Re: API design question for dbf.py

2012-07-06 Thread Ethan Furman
Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: It's checking for equality, not identity. >>> x = float('nan') >>> x in [x] True It's checking for equality OR identity. Good point. In my case, checking for equality will cover both cases. ~Ethan~ -- http:

Re: API design question for dbf.py

2012-07-06 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > It's checking for equality, not identity. >>> x = float('nan') >>> x in [x] True It's checking for equality OR identity. -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: API design question for dbf.py

2012-07-06 Thread Ethan Furman
MRAB wrote: On 06/07/2012 22:34, Ethan Furman wrote: I'm looking for some free advice. ;) My dbf module has three basic containers, all of which support list-like access: Table, List, and Index, each of which is filled with _DbfRecords. The fun part is that a _DbfRecord can compare equal t

Re: API design question for dbf.py

2012-07-06 Thread MRAB
On 06/07/2012 22:34, Ethan Furman wrote: I'm looking for some free advice. ;) My dbf module has three basic containers, all of which support list-like access: Table, List, and Index, each of which is filled with _DbfRecords. The fun part is that a _DbfRecord can compare equal to another _DbfR

API design question for dbf.py

2012-07-06 Thread Ethan Furman
I'm looking for some free advice. ;) My dbf module has three basic containers, all of which support list-like access: Table, List, and Index, each of which is filled with _DbfRecords. The fun part is that a _DbfRecord can compare equal to another _DbfRecord, a _DbfRecordTemplate, a tuple wi