How to test if an object IS another object?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-06-12, eloff777 at yahoo.com <eloff777 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>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?

Nope.

> Yet applying the is operator yields True.

They're the same object.  Why did you expect them not to be?

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