Stefan Krah added the comment: > I can easily provide a specification that makes the current implementation > "correct"
Yes, the current specification is: memoryview only attempts to compare arrays with known (single character native) formats and returns "not equal" otherwise. The problem is that for backwards compatibility memoryview accepts arrays with arbitrary format strings. In operations like tolist() it's possible to raise NotImplemented, but for equality comparisons that's not possible. Note that in 3.2 memoryview would return "equal" for arrays that simply aren't equal, if those arrays happen to have the same bit pattern. One way to deal with this is to demand a strict canonical form of format strings for PEP-3118, see msg167687. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15573> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
