Thank you Gary, Cédric, Christian. When *would *one use "is"? Cédric... the problem I was having was purely an issue of comparison.... "if file.tell() is 0L" was returning False. Strangely enough, "if file.tell() is 0" returns True in the right cases. I assume this is related to the None case?
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Herron wrote: > > In short: *never* use "is". > > Never use "is" unless you want to check "if something is None or > something is not None" > > Christian > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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