Ishwor wrote:
hi all, can anyone tell me why this distinction? i mean why it returns False on floats??
a = 1 b = 1 a is b
True
a = 1.1 b = 1.1 a is b
False
thanx .
There is no guarantee that this will hold in all implementations of Python.
The majority implementation, usually called CPython because its implementation language is C, keeps copies of the first 100 (?) integers so it doesn't have to create separate integer objects each time they are required.
No caching at all is applied to floats, as far as I can tell.
>>> a = 250 >>> b = 250 >>> a is b False
regards Steve
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