In article <iq1e0j02...@news2.newsguy.com> I wrote, in part: >Like it or not, Python has similar "defined as undefined" grey >areas: one is not promised, for instance, whether the "is" operator >is always True for small integers that are equal (although it is >in CPython), nor when __del__ is called (if ever), and so on. As >with the Python-named-Monty, we have "rigidly defined areas of >doubt and uncertainty". These exist for good reasons: to allow >different implementations.
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