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As reported in a StackOverflow question [1]: the order in which the special comparison methods are called seems to be contradictory to the docs [2]. In the following snippet, __eq__ is called with reversed operands first:
>>> class A:
... def __eq__(self, other):
... print(type(self), type(other))
... return True
... 
>>> class B(A):
... pass
... 
>>> A() == B()
<class '__main__.B'> <class '__main__.A'>
True
However, the docs note that:
"""If the right operand’s type is a subclass of the left operand’s type and that subclass provides the reflected method for the operation, this method will be called before the left operand’s non-reflected method. This behavior allows subclasses to override their ancestors’ operations."""
... which suggests that this reversal should only happen when the subclass B *overrides* A's definition of __eq__ (and indeed that's the usual behaviour for arithmetic operations like __add__).
Looking more closely, that statement in the docs is in the 'numeric-types' section, so it's not clear that its rules should apply to the comparison operators. But either way, some doc clarification could be useful.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/24919375/270986
[2] https://docs.python.org/3.5/reference/datamodel.html#emulating-numeric-types