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Pitfalls of Python’s ‘is’ operator

By slacy|General|6 Comments

I saw this post on Friendfeed, and thought I’d reproduce the code here, because it’s a really interesting Python snippet, and to me, basically says never, ever use the ‘is’ operator.  Here’s the snippet that I just reproduced on Python 2.5.2 and 2.6.5: In [1]: a = 500 In [2]: b = 500 In [3]: [...]