Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Fuzzyman wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with the C basic datatypes - I assume it has an array > > or list like object. > > > > Would it contain a sequence of poitners to the members ? In which case > > they would only be equal if the pointers are the same. > > > > In this case : > > > > a = ['some string'] > > b = ['somestring'] > > a == b > > False (probably) > > the "value" of a C array is the address of its first argument. two separate > arrays will never compare equal, no matter what they contain. > > (C programs tend to use various "cmp" functions to compare stuff; it's up > to the programmer to keep track of how to compare things...) >
Thanks. Fuzzy > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
