Sure thing, I'll do this as part of issue #319

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 12:37:24PM -0700, Jai Ram Rideout wrote:
> >              return "Data elements are not the same"
> >  
> >          return "Tables appear equal"
> >  
> >      def __eq__(self, other):
> >          """Equality is determined by the data matrix, metadata, and IDs"""
> > -        if self.observation_ids != other.observation_ids:
> > +        if isinstance(other, self.__class__) is False:
> 
> Can you please change to:
> 
> ```python
> if not isinstance(other, self.__class__):
> ```
> 
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