[Python-Dev] redefining is (original) (raw)

Andrew Koenig ark at acm.org
Wed Mar 24 09:15:16 EST 2004

You've said that a few times.

Yes I did, but I was asked again so I answered again :-)

While the concept is clear and easily implemented: by adding a special method that defaults to 'is' but is done differently for tuples, numbers and strings. But I'm not sure what having this check available would buy me. Can you show some application that would actually use this in a way that can't be easily done without a language addition?

You said you wanted to exchange some more email during the conference, but this is getting silly :-) Let's find some time to talk about it.

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