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Author	steven.daprano
Recipients	Jim.Jewett, docs@python, steven.daprano
Date	2014-07-18.03:33:14
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Message-id	<20140718033203.GI9112@ando>
In-reply-to	<1405625961.78.0.30088981548.issue22001@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 07:39:21PM +0000, Jim Jewett wrote: > Note, however, that containers will normally implement item equality > as "a is b or a==b" We can't say "will normally", since we don't know about the infinite number of possible container types that people might create. The most we can say is that builtin container types will [assuming that this is the intent] or that general containers may.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 07:39:21PM +0000, Jim Jewett wrote:

> Note, however, that containers will normally implement item equality 
> as "a is b or a==b"

We can't say "will normally", since we don't know about the infinite 
number of possible container types that people might create. The most we 
can say is that *builtin* container types will [assuming that this is 
the intent] or that general containers *may*.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-07-18 03:33:15	steven.daprano	set	recipients: + steven.daprano, docs@python, Jim.Jewett
2014-07-18 03:33:15	steven.daprano	link	issue22001 messages
2014-07-18 03:33:14	steven.daprano	create