[Flask] Shouldn't is and == operator work same way while doing string comparisons?

[Tim Johnson]

* Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu> [190503 21:20]:
> …in fact, i can easily give OP  a counterexample with strings:
> 
> >>> a = 'hello' + ' world'
> >>> b = 'hello world'
> >>> a
> 'hello world'
> >>> b
> 'hello world'
> >>> a == b
> True
> >>> a is b
> False
> 
> 
> 
> Gergely Polonkai
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  Another way of looking at what Gergely puts it is that variables a
  and b may contain equal contents but they have different addresses
  in memory.
  
  They are in fact NOT the same object

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