So i generally write quite a few classes, and in most I need to overload the == operator.
If i have two classes, like below: Class A: attribute a attribute b Class B: attribute a attribute c So if I've overloaded their respective __eq__ functions, and I want to test whether or not the individual classes attributes are equal, the code might look something like this: class A: def __eq__(self,other): return self.a == other.a and self.b == other.b class B: def __eq__(self,other): return self.a == other.a and self.c == other.c Now obviously, if I test an instance of either class equal to each other, an attribute error will be thrown, how do I handle this? I could rewrite every __eq__ function and catch attribute errors, but that's tedious, and seemingly unpythonic. Also, I don't want an attribute error thrown whenever two classes are compared that don't have the same attributes. I have a sneaky feeling I'm doing something completely unpythonic here. Thanks! Regards, Kenneth Miller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list