Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Joel Hedlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Which means that "is" comparisons in general will be faster than ==
>> comparisons.
>
> I thought that == automatically compared identify before trying to compare
> the values. Or am I thinking of some special case, like strings?
Even for strings there is a performance difference:
>>> timeit.Timer("'a'=='a'").timeit()
0.26859784126281738
>>> timeit.Timer("'a' is 'a'").timeit()
0.21730494499206543
mfg
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