Add __eq__ and __ne__ to poly1d

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/lib/polynomial.py b/numpy/lib/polynomial.py
index 5bd393cd5..c0c7c2229 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/polynomial.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/polynomial.py
@@ -493,6 +493,12 @@ class poly1d(object):
             other = poly1d(other)
             return polydiv(other, self)
 
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        return (self.coeffs == other.coeffs).all()
+
+    def __ne__(self, other):
+        return (self.coeffs != other.coeffs).any()
+
     def __setattr__(self, key, val):
         raise ValueError, "Attributes cannot be changed this way."