Re: [pygame] easy way to check pygame.Color() equality?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

High Marcus,

I agree that comparing a color to a string was not a good idea. That can 
go as 1.9.0 is still pre-alpha. For backwards compatibility comparison 
with a tuple will remain valid in Pygame 1.9.

Lenard


Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On, Wed Jan 14, 2009, Jake b wrote:
>
>   
> > How so, or what do I need to watch? Meaning is it safe for now to do?:
> >
> > if self.color == pygame.Color("red"): print 'same color!'
> >     
>
> In the recent pygame versions you can do something like:
>
> if color == "0xff0000": print "it's red!"
>
> Comparing a color to a string however is something that should not give
> a valid result, just as other type comparisions:
>
>   
> > > > "1" == 1
> > > >         
> False
>
> In pgreloaded you only can compare a Color object with a another Color
> object.
>
>   

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Lenard Lindstrom
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