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Thu Mar 18 16:28:50 EST 2004 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043254.html

Since this is not a reasonable semantic change we are left we warning
users about misuse.

Are there a number of cases of misuse that python could raise an exception
under? What would pychecker look for? Are they the same question?

Barry

At 18-03-2004 01:00, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > My own concern is that if someone writes expressions such as "x is 0" by
> > mistake, the resulting program might always work on one implementation but
> > fail on another.
>
>I'd rather make this PyChecker's job than redefine 'is'.
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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[Python-Dev] A proposal has surfaced on comp.lang.python toredefine "is"