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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 21:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> So what? The intended purpose of `is` and `==` is not to return True. It
> is
> to perform a comparison which may return False, or True.

Yeah, but there's no point in doing a comparison unless you're doing it
in a context where it *might* return true. Semantics matter.