[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <7xu1qsnk5j.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote:
[snip]
>Python already has a bunch of eq but not equal numeric types:
>
>  1 == 1L      1 is not 1L
>  1 == 1.0     1 is not 1.0
>  1 == 1+0j    1 is not 1+0j

  10**2 == 10**2    10**2 is not 10**2

This doesn't necessarily have to do with types... Object identity
isn't that important here, I think.

>I felt better about the PEP after Guido pointed this out.

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