I understand that what makes perfect sense to me might not make perfect sense to you but it seems a sane default. When you compare two objects, what is that comparision based on? In the explicit is better than implicit world, Python can only assume that you *really* do want to compare objects unless you tell it otherwise. The only way it knows how to compare two objects is to compare object identities.
I am against making exceptions for corner cases and I do think making __ne__ implicitly assume not __eq__ is a corner case. Maybe you think that it takes this explicit is better than implicit philosophy too far and acts dumb but I think it is acting consistently. Cheers, Mahesh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
