I am trying to understand how to check equality of class instances.
Let's say I have a class as follows:
class Car(object):
def __init__(self):
self._color = None
I instanciate two objects as follows :
car1 = Car()
car1._color = 'red'
car2 = Car()
car2._color = 'red'
The two objects having exactly the same attributes, I naively thaught that:
print(car1 == car2)
would print True , which is not the case.
What is happening here?
I did find a solution to check equality:
print(car1.__dict__ == car2.__dict__)
which does print True.
Was that in fact the simplest thing to do?
