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On 03/03/2014 21:10, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Short answer: Avoid using 'is'.
>
> This is bad advice in a Python forum.
>
> The ‘is’ operator is commonly used in Python, so please don't advise
> against it in an unqualified “short answer”.
>
>> Long answer: http://www.beyondwilber.ca/healing-thinking/non-identity-korzybski.html
>
> Interesting, but mostly a distraction for the querent here.
>
> Short answer: Use ‘use’ any time you need to compare object identity.
> You usually do not need to compare object identity.
>

That last paragraph is as clear as mud.

I'd just like to know why people are so obsessed with identities, I've 
never thought to use them in 10+ years of writing Python.  Do I use the 
KISS principle too often?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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