text_combined: armin rigo levdqtunesorg hi phillip sun mar 09 2008 070512pm 0400 phillip j eby wrote however need equality bound methods based object value equality value identity least recently anyway one library wants equalitybased comparison im_self ended writing code tests current python interpreter necessary implements special method type purposes working around absence im_self equality testing however pretty specialized case found exactly case pretty specialized example wanted bound methods use im_self equality rather identity solved writing boundmethodlike object thats really hard general tendency matches opinion seems using im_self identity less surprizing general xappend interchangeable xappend even xappend xappend lets go least surprizing behavior m1im_self m2im_self m1im_funcm2im_func objection bientot armin _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 071055 0100 pythondev equality method objects