What does 'is' do?

[Thomas Heller]

Derek Fountain <devnull at example.com> writes:

> I recently saw a use of 'is' in a piece of Python code. I was trying to find
> out what it does. I can't find it in the online docs. I have the "Python in
> a Nutshell" book and that mentions it as a keyword, but I can't find a
> description of it in there either. It's not in the index.
>
> Can someone tell me where to look?

Second hit if you enter 'is' and press the search button:

<http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi>

<http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi?keyword=is&version=current>

Thomas