The 'is' identity operator checking immutable values caution
Marco Mariani
marco at sferacarta.com
Tue May 13 06:26:13 EDT 2008
wxPythoner at gmail.com wrote:
> We have to avoid the use of the 'is' identity operator with basic,
> immutable values such as numbers and strings.
I'm glad for you. Did you really write checks like "if foo is 27" ?
The point is, you have to learn technologies to use them. It's not like
technologies learn you (not even in soviet Russia)
> How is with this issue in Python 3.0? Is it fixed?
There is nothing to fix.
> Does Python handle this things properly now?
It always did.
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