list comprehension problem

[alex23]

On Oct 30, 1:10 pm, Nick Stinemates <n... at stinemates.org> wrote:
> > Some objects are singletons, ie there's only ever one of them. The most
> > common singleton is None. In virtually every other case you should be
> > using "==" and "!=".
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe you meant to say some
> objects are immutable, in which case you would be correct.

You're completely wrong. Immutability has nothing to do with identity,
which is what 'is' is testing for:

>>> t1 = (1,2,3) # an immutable object
>>> t2 = (1,2,3) # another immutable object
>>> t1 is t2
False
>>> t1 == t2
True

MRAB was refering to the singleton pattern[1], of which None is the
predominant example in Python. None is _always_ None, as it's always
the same object.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern