[Nick Coghlan]
It doesn't quite work the way RDM desribed it - he missed a step.
Thanks for the clarification. We ought to write-out the process somewhere in a
FAQ.
It may also be instructive to step through the recipe that answers the OP's
original request, http://code.activestate.com/recipes/499299/
The call "get_equivalent(set([1, 2, 3]), 2.0)" wraps the 2.0 in a new
object t and calls "t in set([1,2,3])". The set.__contains__ method
hashes t using t.__hash__(self) and checks for an exact match
using t.__eq__(other). Both calls delegate to float objects but the
latter also records the "other" that resulted in a successful equality
test (i.e. 2 is the member of the set that matched the 2.0). The
get_equivalent call then returns the matching value, 2.0.
As far as I can tell, the technique is completely generic and lets
you reach inside any function or container to retrieve the "other"
value that is equivalent to "self".
Raymond
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