Yes, but this is inside the method called _data_equality which is a utility of the __eq__ method.

On May 1, 2014, at 10:07 AM, adamrp <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In biom/table.py:
> 
> >  
> > -        for s_v, o_v in izip(self.iter_sample_data(),
> > -                             other.iter_sample_data()):
> > -            if not (s_v == o_v).all():
> > -                return False
> > +        self._data = self._data.tocsr()
> > +        other = other.tocsr()
> > +
> > +        # From:
> > +        # http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2008-April/016276.html
> > +        if abs(self._data - other).nnz > 0:
> I'm getting the feeling that other is supposed to be a scipy sparse matrix and not a Table; can we make a note of that in the docstring?
> 
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