easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

[Ben Finney]

"saeed.gnu" <saeed.gnu at gmail.com> writes:

> "x is y"          means   "id(y) == id(y)"
> "x is not y"      means   "id(x) != id(x)"
> "x is not None"   means   "id(x) != id(None)"

No, the meanings are different. The behaviour might, or might not, be
the same. The operators are different *because* the meanings are
different.

> "x is not None"  is a really silly statement!! because id(None) and id
> of any constant object is not predictable!

The value returned from ‘id’ is not predictable; but it doesn't need to
be predictable. It merely needs to obey the invariant that the identity
of any given object won't change during the object's lifetime.

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Ben Finney