Equality is missing in Requirement contrast to what is mentioned in the documentation

[gmichaeljaison]

The documentation mentions and shows example of simple equality operations. But it does not work with installed packaging package.

Expected:

# You can do simple comparisons between requirement objects:
>>> Requirement("packaging") == Requirement("packaging")
True
>>> # You can also perform simple comparisons between sets of requirements:
>>> requirements1 = {Requirement("packaging"), Requirement("pip")}
>>> requirements2 = {Requirement("pip"), Requirement("packaging")}
>>> requirements1 == requirements2

Actual:

>>> Requirement("packaging") == Requirement("packaging")
False

Version:
Python 3.9
packaging 21.3

Documentation: https://packaging.pypa.io/en/latest/requirements.html

[pradyunsg]

We have tests for this, and (I’m not a 100% sure about this next bit) that code sample should be getting tested via doctest as well.

packaging/tests/test_requirements.py

Line 279 in 8c6a45e

def test_equal_reqs_equal_hashes(self, dep1, dep2):

[uranusjr]

This was already implemented in #499 but not yet released. The documentation is not wrong either since the link is latest (which reflects the main branch); documentation for the stable version does not contain the example.

[pradyunsg]

Indeed, cross linking to #569 and closing then. :)

[gmichaeljaison]

Thank you for the details. I believe instead of latest if it is labelled dev or develop, it might have been clearer.
Also google search always lists the latest documentation link somehow.