is this a bug?

[Vassilis Virvilis]

Brian Quinlan wrote:
> 

> The bottom line is that you should rarely use the "is" operator except
> when testing if an object is None (there is only one None object in
> Python).
> 

Halo Brian,

So is it safe to do?
if type(a) is type(b): blah blah

If it is, doesn't this mean that the type builtin always returns the same (pre
allocated) object for each type?

I would like also to thank you as everybody else who posted a response to my
somewhat silly (newbie) question.