is implemented with id ?

Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Wed Sep 5 12:28:49 EDT 2012


On 09/05/12 08:46, Dave Angel wrote:
> It's id() which is superfluous.  But it's useful for debugging,
> and for understanding.

While I assiduously work to eschew shadowing most built-in names
such as "list" or "str", I do make an exception for "id" because
it's *so* useful in code, and the built-in nets me almost nothing
(well, nothing that I generally care about) that "is" doesn't
already provide me.

-tkc





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