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[Python-Dev] operator precedence of __eq__, __ne__, etc, if both object have implementations

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 18:34:37 CEST 2009 
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
> We are going to start contributing tests back real soon now.  I'm not sure
> that these are the best tests to contribute as they require a version of
> Python to compare against rather than being nice and stand alone.  But I'm
> sure we have other tests which cover this as well just not as exhaustively.
> We could also possibly check in the baseline file and then CPython could
> compare it's self to previous versions but it'd probably be a pretty
> big file - so it probably shouldn't be included in the standard install
> in the tests directory.

How big is big?  For comparison, CPython's Lib/test/decimaltestdata
directory alone is already over 4Mb, so maybe size isn't an issue?

Mark
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