On 09/05/2012 08:48 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:44:23 UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> <snip> >> > Seeing this thread, I think the is statment should be removed. > It has a replacement syntax of id(x) == id(y) and "a==True" should be > automatically changed into memory comparison.
You didn't read the whole message carefully enough. Id's can be reused, so there are many ways to mess up comparing id's. One is if the two items x and y are expressions (eg. function calls). You call a function, and say it returns a new object, you call id() on that object, and then the object gets discarded. You now have a stale id, and you haven't even evaluated the second expression yet. It's id() which is superfluous. But it's useful for debugging, and for understanding. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
