Checking whether type is None
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 17:53:53 EDT 2018
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 2:14 AM, Schachner, Joseph
<Joseph.Schachner at teledyne.com> wrote:
> While I appreciate that use of "is" in thing is None, I claim this relies on knowledge of how Python works internally, to know that every None actually is the same ID (the same object) - it is singular.
That's part of the *definition* of None. It is a singleton. There is
only one None.
> That probably works for 0 and 1 also but you probably wouldn't consider testing thing is 1, at least I hope you wouldn't. thing is None looks just as odd to me. Why not thing == None ? That works.
>
That's not guaranteed, because integers are not guaranteed to be
singletons. They're compared by value.
ChrisA
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