pythonrag

[Jason Friedman]

I saw this posted in the July issue but did not see any follow-up there:

$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec  7 2009, 18:43:55)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = 500
>>> b = 500
>>> a == b
True
>>> a is b
False
>>> p = 50
>>> q = 50
>>> p == q
True
>>> p is q
True
>>>