"Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | In short, two equal strings may or may not be identical and any code which | makes assumptions based on observed behaviour is broken. If you want to be | able to test identity on strings safely then use the 'intern()' builtin to | get repeatable behaviour.
Intern() is gone in 3.0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
