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Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Mar 3 13:48:39 EST 2014
On 3/3/2014 4:42 AM, ast wrote:
> Consider following code:
>
>>>> A=7
>>>> B=7
>>>> A is B
The 'is' operator has three uses, two intended and one not. In
production code, 'is' tests that an object *is* a particular singular
object, such as None or a sentinel instance of class object. In test
code, 'is' can also be used to test details of a particular
implementation, such as pre-allocation of small ints. New python
programmers also use it to confuse themselves.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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