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Title: Restore default implementation of __ne__ in mixins Set and Mapping
Type: behavior Stage: patch review
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 3.10
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Status: open Resolution:
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2020-07-28 06:34 by serhiy.storchaka, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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PR 21628 serhiy.storchaka, 2022-01-29 22:36
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msg374470 - (view) Author: Serhiy Storchaka (serhiy.storchaka) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-07-28 06:34
According to the documentation [1] abstract classes collections.abc.Set and collections.abc.Mapping provide mixin method __ne__. But implementations of __ne__ in these classes were removed in 3.4 (see issue21408), so the default implementation is inherited from object. The reason is that it works better with classes which override __ne__ to return non-boolean, e.g. NumPy, SymPy and sqlalchemy classes. Previously the != operator falled back to other__eq__(), now it falls back to other__ne__().

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes

But now we have a discrepancy between the decomentation and the code. According to the documentation, if we have a class which inherits from both Set and int, in that order, the __ne__ method should be inherited from class Set instead of class int. But currently it is inherited from int.

>>> import collections.abc
>>> class A(collections.abc.Set, int): pass
... 
>>> A.__ne__
<slot wrapper '__ne__' of 'int' objects>

One way to solve this -- remove __ne__ from lists of mixin methods (see issue41400). Other way -- add the __ne__ implementations which are identical to the default implementation but has preference in the inheritance. I prefer the latter.
msg374549 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-07-29 00:18
If you want to add back the __ne__() method, that would be fine.

FWIW, "class A(collections.abc.Set, int)" seems pretty exotic to me.  I wouldn't have expected that work out well.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:34adminsetgithub: 85588
2022-01-29 22:36:18serhiy.storchakasetpull_requests: + pull_request29195
2020-07-29 00:18:36rhettingersetmessages: + msg374549
2020-07-29 00:16:28rhettingersetmessages: - msg374497
2020-07-28 14:56:04rhettingersetmessages: + msg374497
2020-07-28 06:36:55serhiy.storchakasetpull_requests: - pull_request20795
2020-07-28 06:36:22serhiy.storchakasetkeywords: + patch
stage: patch review
pull_requests: + pull_request20795
2020-07-28 06:34:53serhiy.storchakacreate