On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, February 15, 2014 6:27:33 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Can you give an example of an ambiguous case? Fundamentally, the 'is'
>> operator tells you whether its two operands are exactly the same
>> object, nothing more and nothing less
>
> Fundamentally your definition above is circular: In effect
> the python expr "a is b" is the same as a is b.
It's not circular, it's stating the definition of the operator. And
since the definition is so simple, it's impossible - at that level -
for it to be ambiguous. It's possible for equality to be ambiguous, if
you have two types which define __eq__:
class Everyone:
def __eq__(self, other): return True
class Noone:
def __eq__(self, other): return False
>>> Everyone()==Noone()
True
>>> Noone()==Everyone()
False
But it's not possible for 'is' to behave like that.
ChrisA
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