> You've been told that quite a few times before that "is" is not intended for > what you used it.
I got that. I was cleaning up some code that used "is" incorrectly immediately after. > Some people actually listen to what others tell. Others seem to be driven by > the deep desire to make even the tiniest bit of getting-a-grasp a public > affair. Not really. I always found python to be true to that -- admittedly elusive -- principle of least surprise up to now ("special cases aren't special enough to break the rules", maybe? I don't know. but then you figured that, right?), and was thrown off quite a bit by the behaviour described in one of the earlier posts, that is all. I wanted to ask people's explanations about it and learnt a few things on the way (thanks Dave). What did you get from all of this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list