Oops... my misreading, sorry. The reason that, in Python, short ints have the same identity is not fickle - it's just True. Python creates a new reference (pointer) to the same object.
You're saying you want one comparison operator that for : > a=[1] > ... many other statements here ... > b=[1] gives the result : > a xx b # False > a[0] xx b[0] # True What you're saying is that you don't consider a and b equal when they are container objects of the same type, with the same contents. That's very counter intuitive. All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
