Identity inconsistency and unification of types and classes

[Erik Max Francis]

Rim wrote:

> With the great unification of types and classes, what will happen to
> the
> following identity inconsistency?
> 
> >>> class myint(int): pass
> ...
> >>> a=int(1); b=int(1)
> >>> a is b
> 1
> >>> a=myint(1); b=myint(1)
> >>> a is b
> 0

Whether or not int(1) is int(1) is purely an optimization issue, so one
wonders why one would be concerned about it.

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