On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > You *cannot* replace is with id() except when the objects are guaranteed > to both be alive at the same time, and even then you *shouldn't* replace > is with id() because that is a pessimation (the opposite of an > optimization -- something that makes code run slower, not faster).
Shouldn't that be "pessimization" for symmetry? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
