From a538105f9de4d22e7dd7fbfe2811bd8d38071c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@twistedmatrix.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:32:46 -0400
Subject: do some explaining

---
 OpenSSL/crypto.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/OpenSSL/crypto.py b/OpenSSL/crypto.py
index c48c84f..03fe853 100644
--- a/OpenSSL/crypto.py
+++ b/OpenSSL/crypto.py
@@ -276,7 +276,14 @@ class _EllipticCurve(object):
     _curves = None
 
     if _PY3:
+        # This only necessary on Python 3.  Morever, it is broken on Python 2.
         def __ne__(self, other):
+            """
+            Implement cooperation with the right-hand side argument of ``!=``.
+
+            Python 3 seems to have dropped this cooperation in this very narrow
+            circumstance.
+            """
             if isinstance(other, _EllipticCurve):
                 return super(_EllipticCurve, self).__ne__(other)
             return NotImplemented
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