why () is () and [] is [] work in other way?

[Prasad, Ramit]

> > I have spent some time searching for a bug in my code, it was due to
> > different work of "is" with () and []:
> >>>> () is ()
> > True
> >>>> [] is []
> > False
> >
> > (Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:03:08)
> > [GCC 4.6.1] )
> >
> > Is this what it should be or maybe yielding unified result is better?
> > D.
> 
> Congratulations, you've managed to introduce the most useless thread on
> this ng/ml that I've come across in the ten years that I've been using
> (c)Python.
> 
> I've never ever thought about using this weird thing called "id" in my
> code, (which comes later in all the responses) so why do some people
> think it's so important?
>

Somewhere out there (possibly in an alternate universe) Bill Clinton is reading this thread and nodding vigorously about an argument around the [key]word "is".



Ramit


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