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list comprehension problem

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Oct 30 00:03:31 EDT 2009 
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Nick Stinemates <nick at stinemates.org> writes:

> > Some objects are singletons, ie there's only ever one of them. The
> > most common singleton is None. In virtually every other case you
> > should be using "==" and "!=".
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe you meant to say some
> objects are immutable, in which case you would be correct.

No, I believe the person to whom you are responding meant specifically
to talk about singletons; what they said is correct.

Objects can be equal but not identical. This is true whether or not
those objects are of an immutable type.

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Ben Finney
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