Comparing 2 class types

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <L2k95.37383$NP5.1176274 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
Arinté <shouldbe at message.com> wrote:
>
>How can you know if a 2 variables are different instances of the same class?
>x = someclass()
>y= someclass()
>I tried is, type, and type(x)  is someclass, but none seem to work unless I
>did it wrong.

In addition to Jepler and Jeremy's responses, you need to also use "is"
to find out whether it's a *different* instance of the same class:

class foo:
  pass
a = foo()
b = foo()
c = a
print a is b
print a is c
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