text_combined: nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom guido van rossum wrote said theres use case agree would okay basing equality xfoo yfoo whether x object whether xy consider 0 __add__ 00 __add__ use case issue tracker maintaining collection unique callbacks could bound methods current behaviour actively harmful use case since later callbacks may fail register properly due self comparing equal another instance type already callback method list use case makes useful consider method single object equal little point bound method like xnotify callback list twice 1 acknowledging issue 1617161 bug fixing armin suggests cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 154946 1000 pythondev equality method objects