[Python-ideas] Make "is" checks on non-singleton literals errors

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Oct 9 22:16:00 CEST 2012


On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:15:42 +0200
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> The point is that in 99.9...% of cases,
> 
>   if x == True:
> 
> is just
> 
>   if x:

But it's not dangerous to write `if x == True`, and so there isn't any
point in warning. As Raymond said, this is a job for a style checker.

Regards

Antoine.


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