Pragmatics of the standard is() function

[alex23]

On Nov 29, 5:22 am, Den <patents... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 3:01 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> > That is correct. You probably should rarely use `is`. Apart from testing
> > for None, use of `is` should be rare.
>
> With respect, I disagree with advice that the use of a language
> construct should be rare.  All constructs should be used
> *appropriately*.

Steven didn't say it _shouldn't_ be used, only that it it should be
_rarely_ used. General consensus would be that that is the most
appropriate use of 'is'.

Value comparisons are _far_ more common in Python than identity
comparisons, the ubiquitous None notwithstanding.

But for your general point, I totally agree. I feel the same way about
the ternary syntax, boolean defaults for conditionals etc