Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > String literals will often be interned if they look like (especially, > if they *are*) identifiers, so if you want to prevent other strings > from happening to match, you can't trust 'is'. > > [...] > > If you're using strings as state values, you should be using == to > compare them. Nothing else is safe.
You didn't quite understand the use case. You would never ever do things like: > >>> a.state="<<INIT>>" You'd only refer to the state names symbolically: a.state = a.INIT Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
