"Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To avoid that you either need to define the flag string as a global name > or use it strictly in the local scope it's defined in. Python will also > sometimes reuse strings as an optimization instead of creating a second > string if they are equal. Something else to be aware of.
I believe CPython's string equality function first checks the two strings for identity. So one gets most of the benefit of 'is' testing anyway. (An I presume it next check for length equality.) tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
