Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > except that it doesn't work. > > writing broken code is never a good practice. > With all due respect, for some reason it seems to work on my machine. Because I certainly agree with you about writing broken code.
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jan 17 2006, 16:52:02) [GCC 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = range(5) >>> b = range(5) >>> >>> if len(a) is len(b): ... print "They're the same size!" ... else: ... print "They're not the same size!" ... They're the same size! >>> > > (the reason that it appears to work for small integers is that the > interpreter is caching the objects for some commonly used values, > including small integers and one-character strings. but that's an > interpreter implementation detail, not something you can rely on). > That's very interesting. Thank you for explaining :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
