Issue #26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.

Lib/plistlib.py

@@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ class Data:
     def __eq__(self, other):
         if isinstance(other, self.__class__):
             return self.data == other.data
-        elif isinstance(other, str):
+        elif isinstance(other, bytes):
             return self.data == other
         else:
-            return id(self) == id(other)
+            return NotImplemented
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.data))

Lib/test/test_plistlib.py

@@ -515,15 +515,15 @@ class TestPlistlibDeprecated(unittest.TestCase):
 
         cur = plistlib.loads(buf)
         self.assertEqual(cur, out_data)
-        self.assertNotEqual(cur, in_data)
+        self.assertEqual(cur, in_data)
 
         cur = plistlib.loads(buf, use_builtin_types=False)
-        self.assertNotEqual(cur, out_data)
+        self.assertEqual(cur, out_data)
         self.assertEqual(cur, in_data)
 
         with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
             cur = plistlib.readPlistFromBytes(buf)
-        self.assertNotEqual(cur, out_data)
+        self.assertEqual(cur, out_data)
         self.assertEqual(cur, in_data)
 
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.
+
 - Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
 
   The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches