[Tutor] Need some clarification on this

[Joel Goldstick]

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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Oops.  I misread your post.  I (why I don't know) thought I saw a = 5, b =
4.

a and b are names.  Python has an integer of 5 from a = 5, so it just refers
to that same object with b.



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Joel Goldstick
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