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Comparaison between RangePartitioning objects seems to be incorrect. #159
Description
Comparaison between RangePartitioning objects seems to be incorrect.
Environment details
google-cloud-bigqueryversion:1.25.0
Code example
from google.cloud.bigquery import RangePartitioning
print(RangePartitioning(field='something') ==
RangePartitioning(field='something'))Code above returns False. I was expecting True.
Activity
HemangChothani commentedon Jul 10, 2020
@francois-baptiste The magic of the equality operator == happens in the eq() class method of the object. This is a magic class method that’s called whenever an instance of this class is compared against another object. If this method is not implemented in the class , then == compares the memory addresses of the two objects by default.
You can compare like:
francois-baptiste commentedon Jul 10, 2020
Thank you @HemangChothani for the workaround. I think however that the eq() method should be implemented as the other class of the library.