On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 15:06, Ahmed Amr <ahmedam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to take your opinion on modifying some of the indexed collections
> like tuples, lists, arrays to evaluate its equality to True when having the
> same items in the same indexes.
> Currently, when comparing a list of items to an array of the same items for
> equality (==) it returns False, I'm thinking that it would make sense to
> return True in that context, as we're comparing item values and we have the
> same way of indexing both collections, so we can compare item values.
>
> So what do you think about applying such behavior on collections that can be
> indexed the same way such as tuples, lists, and arrays?
>
> Example: (Current)
>
> import array
> tuple_ = (1.1, 2.2, 3.3)
> list_ = [1.1, 2.2, 3.3]
> array_ = array.array('f', [1.1, 2.2, 3.3])
>
> # all of the following prints False.
> print(tuple_ == list_)
> print(tuple_ == array_)
> print(array_ == list_)
>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.array_equal((1.1, 1.2, 1.3), [1.1, 1.2, 1.3])
True
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