On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:36:37 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:36:38 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Python's 'is' leaks > > the machine abstraction. 'id' does it legitimately (somewhat), 'is' does > > it illegitimately > Can you elaborate on why id() is legitimate and "is" is not? Mostly a question of more or less infelicitous English leading to philosophical nonsense. [And note I put a 'somewhat'] I can say "'id' is just 'machine-id' is just address at some low level" Its uglier to say "Is is machine-is" And before you bring it up, "Jython's id is not machine-id" is putting the cart before the horse. "Jython is an imitation of Cpython and does a good job but not quite as in the case of 'id'" is the right order (IMHO) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
