Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> writes: > I was just expressing the preference that operators should be > composed of a single word, especially since none of the other > operators are multi-words (Special cases aren't special enough to > break the rules). The only advantage of using 'is not' over 'isnot' is > that we have one less keyword to deal with.
I had never thought of the potential for misinterpreting 'a is not b' for 'a is (not b)' before and this made me slightly uncomfortable for a bit. However there is no valid reason that I can think of to write a is (not b). -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list