"Dave Kuhlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Calling type(n) for any integer seems to return the same object. > I checked with id().
I would hope so since they are all of the same type. It thus makes sense that they all return a reference to the same type object. > So, should we be using: > > if type(n) is type(42) You could, it shouldn't make any difference in this context. > or, as suggested by Aditya Lal in another message in this thread: > > import types > > if type(n) is types.IntType > > Or, is this a frivolous question that makes no difference? 'is' or == can make a difference in some cases but I don't think this is one of them. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
