Are objects with the same id always equal when comparing them with ==?
If I have two objects o1 and o2, and we know that
id(o1) == id(o2)
returns true.
Then, does it follow that
o1 == o2
Or is this not always the case? The paper I'm working on says this is not the case, but in my opinion it should be true!
Not always:
>>> nan = float('nan')
>>> nan is nan
True
or formulated the same way as in the question:
>>> id(nan) == id(nan)
True
but
>>> nan == nan
False
NaN is a strange thing. Per definition it is not equal nor less or greater than itself. But it is the same object. More details why all comparisons have to return False
in this SO question.
The paper is right. Consider the following.
class WeirdEquals:
def __eq__(self, other):
return False
w = WeirdEquals()
print("id(w) == id(w)", id(w) == id(w))
print("w == w", w == w)
Output is this:
id(w) == id(w) True
w == w False