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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:36:16 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: 'is not' or '!='
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On 2014-08-19 08:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The English word "is" is the third-person singular simple present 
> indicative form of "be",

Am I the only one who feels the urge to write

  if i am some_other_object: ...
  if we are some_other_object: ...
  if u are some_other_object: ... # though txtspk bothers me

instead of using "is" for reasons of grammatical correctness?  I've
changed variable-names to avoid this on occasion. :-)

-tkc