On 09/05/12 08:46, Dave Angel wrote: > It's id() which is superfluous. But it's useful for debugging, > and for understanding.
While I assiduously work to eschew shadowing most built-in names such as "list" or "str", I do make an exception for "id" because it's *so* useful in code, and the built-in nets me almost nothing (well, nothing that I generally care about) that "is" doesn't already provide me. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list