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Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:

> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>:
>
> > 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?
>
> Calmly choosing the right tool for the job is not an obsession.

Persistently banging your head in contradiction to the facts of Python's
data model, as you have been doing, starts to look very much like
obsession.

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