doc/news.rst | 1 +
 pyderasn.py  | 3 +++

diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst
index 2e16911fab5fde197a37a0cf2722e91e557655156a1e5dbcdb10249690cdcd15..83f14d481cff4721150df6be147e1735ce17b87f953b5f4c482c26493fca875b 100644
--- a/doc/news.rst
+++ b/doc/news.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ---
 * Strict NumericString's value sanitation
 * Invalid encoding in string types will raise ``DecodeError`` exception,
   instead of ``Unicode*Error``
+* Fixed DecodePathDefBy workability with Python 2.x
 
 .. _release3.3:
 
diff --git a/pyderasn.py b/pyderasn.py
index b7701ca606516b126e890231960bba47f8f157128e0f5d51f68b0ff234e55d0b..61043260ef5c1c190d1a3667a70d77b5663346a42ac6d96c4eaa3d2eb42f88c1 100755
--- a/pyderasn.py
+++ b/pyderasn.py
@@ -1018,6 +1018,9 @@
     def __init__(self, defined_by):
         self.defined_by = defined_by
 
+    def __ne__(self, their):
+        return not(self == their)
+
     def __eq__(self, their):
         if not isinstance(their, self.__class__):
             return False