On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:26:46 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Gary Herron <gher...@islandtraining.com> writes: >> Experts: Singleton immutable types *may* be compared with "is", > > That is absolutely wrong: > > >>> a = 2^100 > >>> b = 2^100 > >>> a == b > True > >>> a is b > False
What should this example show? And where's the singleton here? BTW: In [367]: a = 2 ^ 100 In [368]: b = 2 ^ 100 In [369]: a == b Out[369]: True In [370]: a is b Out[370]: True Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list