Immutable and Mutable Types

[Duncan Booth]

Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> In article <Xns9A64A2776A5Aduncanbooth at 127.0.0.1>,
> Duncan Booth  <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:
>> I don't have a copy of 1.4 to check so I'll believe you, but you can 
>> certainly get the output I asked for with much more recent versions.
> 
>> For the answer I actually want each asterisk substitutes for exactly
>> one character.
> 
> Then I'll guess you're looking for something like '0==0', with Python
> 2.2 or so (so that you'd get the PyTrue object).
> 
Yes, that was the answer I was looking for: CPython 1.5.x (or maybe 
earlier?) to 2.2.x without a bool type but separate values for true and 
false (as used by PyWin). Also it seems that Jython 2.2.1 (and probably 
other versions) behaves the same way.

I'm intrigued though by Stargaming's answer with 1//1, I must look into 
that one.