Comparing IP addresses and MAC addresses results in stack overflow

[BlackVegetable]

If a program attempts to compare an IP address with an Ethernet (MAC) address (such as using "is"), rather than resulting in an appropriate error stating invalid types were used for comparison, some mutual recursion results which only terminates on a stack overflow and a program crash.

[ljluestc]

import ipaddress
import netifaces

# Example IP and MAC addresses
ip_address = ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.1.1')
mac_address = netifaces.ifaddresses('eth0')[netifaces.AF_LINK][0]['addr']

# Comparing IP and MAC addresses
if ip_address == mac_address:
    print("IP and MAC addresses are equal.")
else:
    print("IP and MAC addresses are not equal.")