Fixed Improper Method Call: Replaced `NotImplementedError`

[nydelzaf]

General information

This PR is for a normal bug fix.

Details

While triaging your project, our bug fixing tool generated the following message(s)-

In file: forward.py, class: StructuredDataName, there is a special method __eq__ that raises a NotImplementedError. If a special method supporting a binary operation is not implemented it should return NotImplemented. On the other hand, NotImplementedError should be raised from abstract methods inside user defined base classes to indicate that derived classes should override those methods. iCR suggested that the special method __eq__ should return NotImplemented instead of raising an exception. An example of how NotImplemented helps the interpreter support a binary operation is here.

In file: forward.py, class: StructuredDataID, there is a special method __eq__ that raises a NotImplementedError. If a special method supporting a binary operation is not implemented it should return NotImplemented. On the other hand, NotImplementedError should be raised from abstract methods inside user defined base classes to indicate that derived classes should override those methods. iCR suggested that the special method __eq__ should return NotImplemented instead of raising an exception. An example of how NotImplemented helps the interpreter support a binary operation is here.

Changes

Replaced occurance of NotImplementedError with NotImplemented

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[kbaikov]

Thank you for your contribution! This PR needs some improvement before we can merge it: Could you please rebase, since the file forward.py does not exist anymore and the relevant functionality was moved to syslog.py at the same location.

[nydelzaf]

Thank you for your contribution! This PR needs some improvement before we can merge it: Could you please rebase, since the file forward.py does not exist anymore and the relevant functionality was moved to syslog.py at the same location.

Sure. I'll do it as soon as I can.

[kbaikov]

Change has been successfully rebased and submitted as fc3688be110245fffadffb2f66c2100c29045a3a with author metadata. Thank you for your contribution. This inspired several follow-up commits.