Nick. I think you should realize that I—and a number of the other people who dislike your elliding the difference between equality and identity—also teach beginning programmers.
> 1. You could use "is", and say "It's most proper to use "is" when > comparing to certain values, including None which we will explain later. > For now,you just need to know that "is" plays a role similar to == here - > testing if the thing is None." That would be fine. "I'm going to explain > that later" is not that rare a thing to say in this course. > YES. This is the obvious and correct approach. > 2. You could just use == like you do with strings and ints, and mention > "it's more proper to use "is" with None here, and we'll start doing that > when we get to "is" organically." > If you don't forget that footnote every time you show code, I guess this is a less-good, but not horrible, approach.
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