Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com
Sat Mar 3 02:07:25 EST 2007


Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Shawn Milo a écrit :

>>     if recs.has_key(piid) is False:
> 
> 'is' is the identity operator - practically, in CPython, it
> compares memory addresses. You *dont* want to use it here.

It's recommended to use "is None"; why not "is False"? Are there
multiple False instances or is False generated somehow?

Regards,


Björn

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