On 8/12/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 06:13 PM 8/9/2007, Ben Finney wrote: > > >it's entirely left to the language implementation which > > >optimisation trade-offs to make, and the language user (that's you > > >and I) should *not* expect any particular behaviour to hold between > > >different implementations. > > > > I'm not clear on the meaning of "implementations" here. Would 2.5 > > for Windows, Mac, Linux all be different implementations? Would Iron > > Python be another? ActivePython? > > For the purpose of the above statement, you should consider even the > same Python on two different machines to be "different > implementations". As a programmer writing Python code, you should not > expect any "implementation-dependent" behaviour to operate in any > particular way.
So would a programmer EVER use "is" in a script? Dick
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