(Please preserve attribution lines when you quote someone, so we can keep track of who said what in the developing discussion.)
Nick Stinemates <n...@stinemates.org> writes: > > Some objects are singletons, ie there's only ever one of them. The > > most common singleton is None. In virtually every other case you > > should be using "==" and "!=". > > Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe you meant to say some > objects are immutable, in which case you would be correct. No, I believe the person to whom you are responding meant specifically to talk about singletons; what they said is correct. Objects can be equal but not identical. This is true whether or not those objects are of an immutable type. -- \ “Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.” | `\ —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
