On 16/02/2014 18:01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>:
But for that Ive to use is
And as a teacher Ive to explain is
Might as well use C and get on with pointers
To me 'is' is a can of worms
I'm not against "is," but it must be carefully defined and taught.
As far as "x is None" is concerned, a key piece of information is
presented on <URL: http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/constants.html>:
None
The sole value of the type NoneType.
Unfortunately the page is a bit confusing. It says:
A small number of constants live in the built-in namespace.
So an essential characteristic of the None object (uniqueness) is
mentioned in the middle of the discussion on the built-in namespace. The
index doesn't contain an entry on NoneType.
Thus, there might still be a nagging concern that a second NoneType
object x such that
x == None and x is not None
could crop up (from native code, perhaps).
Marko
Patches are always welcome :)
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