[Python-Dev] A proposal has surfaced on comp.lang.python
toredefine "is"
Andrew Koenig
ark-mlist at att.net
Wed Mar 17 19:38:33 EST 2004
> I'm not sure what the use case for the recursive "is" is, but it would be
> no cheaper than "==" in that case. I'm disinclined to change things.
I can understand why you might be disinclined, but I do see why recursive
"is" might be cheaper. The simplest case is probably comparing two
2-element tuples, where the elements are arbitrary objects. == might not
even be defined on those objects, but "is" would be.
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