On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> The only way to check if two values are the same or not is to compare >> via is or compare the return values of id(). > > To quote you, 'bollocks'. The right way to compare values is with value > comparison operators.
I meant "the same object". > >> So you can say that is or >> >> id() are ill-defined, or you can say that the identity of new numbers >> is ill-defined, > > > 'numbers' do not have identity, at least not separate from value. > Concrete computational process objects do. I meant "number objects". I hope I did not cause any genuine confusion. -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
