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-rw-r--r--Include/unicodeobject.h3
-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
index 135e469..956bdbd 100644
--- a/Include/unicodeobject.h
+++ b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -1951,7 +1951,8 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyUnicode_Replace(
);
/* Compare two strings and return -1, 0, 1 for less than, equal,
- greater than resp. */
+ greater than resp.
+ Raise an exception and return -1 on error. */
PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyUnicode_Compare(
PyObject *left, /* Left string */
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 98b10e9..b84d888 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -10445,6 +10445,10 @@ unicode_compare(PyObject *str1, PyObject *str2)
void *data1, *data2;
Py_ssize_t len1, len2, i;
+ /* a string is equal to itself */
+ if (str1 == str2)
+ return 0;
+
kind1 = PyUnicode_KIND(str1);
kind2 = PyUnicode_KIND(str2);
data1 = PyUnicode_DATA(str1);
@@ -10531,10 +10535,7 @@ PyUnicode_RichCompare(PyObject *left, PyObject *right, int op)
return Py_True;
}
}
- if (left == right)
- result = 0;
- else
- result = unicode_compare(left, right);
+ result = unicode_compare(left, right);
/* Convert the return value to a Boolean */
switch (op) {