[Tutor] Need some clarification on this
Joel Goldstick
joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 15:54:49 CET 2011
2011/3/19 Yaşar Arabacı <yasar11732 at gmail.com>
> >>>a=5
> >>>b=5
> >>>a == b
> True
> >>>a is b
> True
>
> My question is, why "a is b" is true. What I expected it to be is that, a
> and b are different things with same value.
>
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True means not zero, not "". Any numeric value but 0 is true. so you have
True and True.
I think what you are thinking of would be a == b. Since a does not equal b,
the result is False
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Joel Goldstick
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