Stackoverflow question: Is there a built-in identity function in Python?

[Ethan Furman]

On 12/07/2017 11:23 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 12/7/17 1:28 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

>> --> identity('spam', 'eggs', 7)
>> ('spam', 'eggs', 7)
>
> I don't see why this last case should hold.  Why does the function take more than one argument?  And if it does, then
> why doesn't it work like this?
>
>      --> identity('spam')
>      ('spam',)
>
> (because then it wouldn't be an identity function!)  Trying to handle the multi-argument case seems like it adds an
> unneeded special case to the function.

--> a = 'spam'
--> a == neds_identity(a)
False

;)

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~Ethan~