25 Oct
2002
25 Oct
'02
8:11 p.m.
Florent> Aaaaaaaaah so that's why! Thanks for the explanation, I didn't Florent> know of this subtlety. Do you know if Guido will always keep it Florent> that way BTW? Most likely. The "no space" constraint means that identifiers in your programs get interned, but the interpreter doesn't waste resources interning long stuff like doc strings which wouldn't improve performance. In general you should only use "is" when you know you're dealing with a singleton like None. -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/