From b560fa7d8f01772d686b4ac74b6f599220523117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed-Bayoumy <ahmed.bayoumy@mail.mcgill.ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:07:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] relax variables type check

---
 src/DMDO/variables.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/DMDO/variables.py b/src/DMDO/variables.py
index e52bbc3..f4d57ab 100644
--- a/src/DMDO/variables.py
+++ b/src/DMDO/variables.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def __truediv__(self, other):
       return np.divide(self.value, other)
   
   def __update__(self, other):
-    if type(other)!=variableData and type(self.value) != type(other):
+    if type(other)!=variableData:
       raise IOError(f'The variables data dunder equality method of {self.name} expects a variable data object as an input or variable values with the same type of {self.name}!')
     if isinstance(other, variableData):
       self =  copy.deepcopy(other)