[XML-SIG] Writing DOM-neutral code

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:47:14 -0500


Rich Salz writes:
 > Hm, use "is" instead of "==" for type objects?  Because it's slightly
 > faster? Or does there exist a case such that "is" succeeds where "=="
 > fails.

  There is no meaning to equality-without-identity for type objects,
and the two will always yield the same result.

 > I am not ready to require python 2.2 yet.
 > 	/r$

  That's fine too.


  -Fred

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