Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: No, because the rich comparison docs explicitly state that the interpreter makes no assumptions about the relationship between != and == (or, more precisely, __eq__ and __ne__).
"""There are no implied relationships among the comparison operators. The truth of x==y does not imply that x!=y is false. """ (from http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#basic-customization) If someone is writing unit tests for comparison methods they should explicitly test all 6 operations. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2578> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
