Fuzzyman wrote: > 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. As also the fact, that when a = [1,2.0,3L] b = [1.0,2,3 ] a==b # gives True even if the objects in the lists are actually different, or when the objects being members of the list redefine __eq__ so, that no matter how different they are, the lists always compare True.
Claudio > > All the best, > > > Fuzzyman > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
