On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Ramchandra Apte <maniandra...@gmail.com> wrote: > the is statement could be made into a function
It's not a statement, it's an operator; and functions have far more overhead than direct operators. There's little benefit in making 'is' into a function, and high cost; unlike 'print', whose cost is dominated by the cost of producing output to a console or similar device, 'is' would be dominated by the cost of name lookups and function call overhead. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
