bpo-42344: Improve pseudo implementation for SimpleNamespace (GH-23264)

jugmac00 · web-flow · commit bbeb2d266d6f · 2020-11-13T13:15:37.000-05:00
diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst
@@ -409,7 +409,9 @@ Additional Utility Classes and Functions
                return "{}({})".format(type(self).__name__, ", ".join(items))
 
            def __eq__(self, other):
-               return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
+               if isinstance(self, SimpleNamespace) and isinstance(other, SimpleNamespace):
+                  return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
+               return NotImplemented
 
    ``SimpleNamespace`` may be useful as a replacement for ``class NS: pass``.
    However, for a structured record type use :func:`~collections.namedtuple`
