On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:55:52 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: > My own preference: No is operator; only id when we deliberately need to > poke into the implementation. > > Of course I am in a miniscule minority I guess on that :-)
If I have understood you, I think that's a poor way of looking at it. We can have an `is` operator to determine whether or not two objects are the same, without having a concept of object IDs; but you can't have a concept of object IDs without having distinct objects. `is` is more fundamental than id(). IDs are a proxy for distinct objects. If you live in a country with an ID card of some sort, then the IDs acts as an identifier for each unique individual. But countries without ID cards don't lack unique individual people. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
