[Tutor] pychecker: x is None or x == None

[Alan G]

>    if x == None:
>        do_something()
> 
> but then someone thought that we should really change these to
> 
>    if x is None:
>        do_something()
> 
> However. if you run pychecker on these two snippets of code, it
> complains about the second, and not the first:

Personally I'd use

if not x:
  do_something()

No idea what pyChecker thinks of that though! :-)
And of course it's slightly different to a specific check for None, 
it will catch 0, [], '',"", etc...

Of the two forms you suggest I'd stick with equality since the 
identity test (is) assumes that only one instance of None ever 
exists which could potentially change in some future exotic 
version of Python... You really are interested in the value 
of x not its identity.

Alan G.