如何在Python中为特定字符串覆盖完全相等的函数？

Question

I am borderline new to python

I want to override the == function, in one special case. namely, I want to "trick" python into thinking that a given string is equal to any other string I compare it to say x = "potato", when comparing any string to x I want it to return True. x == "MANGO" and x == "Tomato" will be True but of course "MANGO" == "Tomato" will still be false

I wish i didn't have to use strings, but it is necessary.

If this is not something that can be done, then never mind of course

Answer 1

you can make a class inheriting from str and overriding eq

class equalToAllStrings(str):
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return type(other) is str
x = equalToAllStrings("a")
x == 'b'