New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com>:
Currently collections.Counter implements both __eq__ and __ne__ methods. The
problem is that if you subclass Counter and override its __eq__ method you will
need to implement also the __ne__ method. Usually you do not need to implement
__ne__ because the implementation inherited from the object class does the
right thing in most cases (unless you implement NumPy or symbolic expressions).
Also, the Python implementation of Counter.__ne__ is a tiny bit slower than the
C implementation of object.__ne__.
Counter.__ne__ was added because the implementation of __ne__ inherited from
dict did not work correct for Counter. But we can just restore the default
implementation:
__ne__ = object.__ne__
Of all Python classes in the stdlib which implement __eq__ only Counter,
WeakRef and some mock classes implement also __ne__. In case of Counter I think
it is not necessary.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 374306
nosy: rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Restore default implementation of __ne__ in Counter
versions: Python 3.10
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