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Thanks, I saw this on SO too. Just curious: would it ever happen in practice?

• svilen_dobrev 3y ago
  every little thing happens in practice... usually unnoticed and buried while refactoring something innocent/ly. sooner or later the __eq__ method will be redefined for some class, then reworked, and then.. == None might not be what was supposed to be.. or, my favorite, x='a' ; (x,)[0] == x[0] == x .. but are only equal until x changes to something not-1-long-sequence..
• nomel 3y ago
  I try to avoid statistical programming, preferring determinism, driven by intent. ;) So, I use "is" since "is" is not a context dependent concept, like equals is. I've seen this once in the wild, and it made sense for its use: def __eq__(self, other): return bool(self) == bool(other)