"John Salerno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there a way to assign multiple variables to the same value, but so > that an identity test still evaluates to False?
Make sure the value is not a singleton. Assign them one at a time. >>> w=1000 >>> x=1000 >>> w==x True >>> w is x False >>> w=2 >>> x=2 >>> w==x True >>> w is x True Hope that helps, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list