Strange behaviour of 'is'

[Ben Finney]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:

> Perfectly all right: you make the point very well that the behavior is 
> an implementation artifact and not a language feature.

And for those who may be thinking "oh, so I can at least depend on the
behaviour within a particular implementation", that's wrong too:
implementations are free to (and most will) change that behaviour from
one object or assignment to the next, depending on what optimisation
choices are made.

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Ben Finney