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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 05:07 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 1. The default repr is unique. Should we try and preserve that?
>
>As a rule of thumb, I try to have repr(a) == repr(b) <==> (a == b),
>rather than (a is b). I don't know if that's standard or helps.

Yep.  I think because reprs are strings they should be compared by equality
instead of identity.

-Barry

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