 id=link31 onMouseOver="ShowTip(event, 'tt2', 'link31')" onMouseOut="HideTip('tt2')">policy</a> knob to determine whether the comparison should be deep, shallow, or reference.</p><p>The name input is used for purposes of storing and printing a miscompare.</p><p>The <i>lhs</i> and <i>rhs</i> objects are the two objects used for comparison.</p><p>The <i>check_type</i> determines whether or not to verify the object types match (the return from <i>lhs.get_type_name()</i> matches <i>rhs.get_type_name()</i>).</p>