Re: How to test if an object IS another object?
Sorry about removing my message, I posted with the wrong google account, I don't really want my email where those irritating spam bots can find it. >The most obvious way (as usual ?): > >if obj1 is obj2: > // your code here I immediately thought of is, and tested it in the console, but it didn't work quite like I expected: >foo = 3 >bar = 3 >zoo = foo >foo is zoo True >foo is bar True >zoo is bar True clearly foo and bar have the same value but they are different objects aren't they? Yet applying the is operator yields True. Thanks, -Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to test if an object IS another object?
Fascinating. With small strings, it uses the same object, and with small numbers like 3. With 300 they were different objects (why, shouldn't they both be ints still?) Mutable objects functioned differently as you suggested: >>>foo = [] >>>bar = [] >>>foo == bar True >>>foo is bar False Tuples (which are immutable) also appear to be reused >>>foo = () >>>bar = () >>>foo is bar True Thanks for your help, I know how to solve the problem now. -Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
