identity to equality check

[carlsonp]

Description of changes

Changes identity is to equality == check

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Testing, Bugs, Errors, Logs, Documentation

• Can you think of any use case in which the code does not behave as intended? Have they been tested?
• Can you think of any inputs or external events that could break the code? Is user input validated and safe? Have they been tested?
• If appropriate, are there adequate property based tests?
• If appropriate, are there adequate unit tests?
• Should any logging, debugging, tracing information be added or removed?
• Are error messages user-friendly?
• Have all documentation changes needed been made?
• Have all non-obvious changes been commented?

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• Are there any potential impacts on other parts of the system or backward compatibility?
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Quality

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[jeffchuber]

thanks! will get this merged and released

[jeffchuber]

thank you

[beggers]

@carlsonp we recently had a CI issue on main which is affecting this branch. If you merge in main tests should pass then I'd be happy to merge this in :^)

[jeffchuber]

@carlsonp I got you :) tests running now!

[beggers]

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