[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review. (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 11:40:19 CEST 2009


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Nick Coghlan writes:

> However, while I'd still be a little happier if the .ip attribute > went away all together and another means was found to conveniently > associate an IPAddress and an IPNetwork, keeping it doesn't bother > me anywhere near as much as having network equivalence defined in > terms of something other than the network ID and the netmask. s/equivalence/equality/ There are several notions of equivalence in play, and all can be implemented as methods. The question is which one is going to be "==".

I have just enough pure math in my educational background to think of 'equality' as the 'default equivalence class', but yes, the meaning of "==" is exactly what I was referring to.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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