[Python-Dev] Fighting the theoretical randomness of "is" on immutables

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Mon, 6 May 2013 23:18:54 +1000,
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> We're not going to change the language design because people don't
>> understand the difference between "is" and "==" and then wrongly blame
>> PyPy for breaking their code.
>
> Well, if I'm doing:
>
>   mylist = [x]
>
> and ``mylist[0] is x`` returns False, then I pretty much consider the
> Python implementation to be broken, not my code :-)

Yeah, that's a rather good point - I briefly forgot that the trigger
here was PyPy's specialised single type containers.

Cheers,
Nick.

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