On Dec 3, 2019, at 15:45, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 4/12/19 7:26 am, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote: >> If you’re using interning for functionality, to distinguish two equal >> strings that came from different inputs or processes, your code is probably >> broken. > > That's not what interning is normally used for. Usually it's > to allow test for equality to be replaced by tests for identity.
But why do you want to replace those tests? If it’s not for performance or for functionality, why do you care? (In C it could be about convenience/readability—strcmp is ugly and easy to get wrong—but that doesn’t apply to Python.) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/55GIID2S6PZVICAIJYYX5QYW7FAJNGRD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
