When to use None

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Tue Feb 1 14:10:23 EST 2000


In article <8779su$sak$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <stevie_deja at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>Would anyone explain to me where there is a difference between the
>following two calls:
>
>if some_var == None :  print 'var is none'
>
>if some_var is None :  print 'var is none'

The latter is faster because it does a direct object comparison rather
than going through the conversion.
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