On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:23:46 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > >> There is no metaphysical implication from Python's "is" operator. If >> the operator had precisely the same behaviour, but was called "same", >> as in: >> >> a same b >> => returns True if a and b are the same object => returns False if a >> and b are not the same object >> >> would you claim there was a metaphysical implication? > > I would. You are not defining anything because you are not explaining > what "same object" means.
I mean exactly the same thing by "same object" as you do when you use it: > Set theory obeys the so-called extensionality principle: if two objects > are indistinguishable in every way, they are one and the same object. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
