Nathan Ernst <nathan.er...@gmail.com> writes: > There is a built-in identity function in Python. The function is called > 'id'.
It should be clear from the rest of the thread. But, to be explicit: That's not what is meant by “identity function”, and the Python ‘id’ function is not an identity function. The Python ‘id’ function returns the “identity of the object”, a Python-specific concept that is unrelated to the identity function. An “identity function” is mathematics terminology for “a function that always returns the same value that was used as its argument.” <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_function> -- \ “But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we | `\ just make God madder and madder.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
