Why is this?

[Matt Hammond]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:10:08 +0100, John Hazen <john at hazen.net> wrote:

>> >>>> [[], []] is [[]]*2
>> > True
>
> Just curious, did you actually cut and paste this from a real
> interactive session?  (I think not.)  My interpreter (yes, I know it's
> old) gives:

Ooops - you're absolutely right. I was cutting and pasting, but it seems I  
was a little overzealous with my editing!

I've still got that in my terminal's history buffer, and it does indeed  
read:

>>> [[], []] is [[]]*2
False




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| Matt Hammond
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