[Python-Dev] == on object tests identity in 3.x (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jul 8 01:52:17 CEST 2014

On 07/07/2014 04:49 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

Probably the best argument for the behavior is that "x is y" should imply "x == y", which preludes raising an exception. No such invariant is desired for ordering, so default implementations of < and > are not provided in Python 3.

Nice. This bit should definitely make it into the doc patch if not already in the docs.

-- Ethan

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