On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > But I have a different question -- can this be demonstrated without the 'is'? > Because to me 'is' -- equivalently id -- is a code-smell and is like > explaining funny behavior by showing the dis -- like > $ gcc -S ... > -- output. > > It can always explain, but indicates that the semantics is not (sufficiently) > abstract in this aspect
Not so. Object identity is a fundamental part of Python. Indistinguishable-but-distinct mutable objects are crucial to Python's behaviour. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
