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On 20 September 2011 14:42, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 20/09/2011 19:13, Kayode Odeyemi wrote:
>>
>> if item is not {} and timeout is not 0:
>
> `not {}` has the value True, so `item is not {}` means `item is True`.
> The `is` checks for identity, not equality, so this is true only if `item`
> actually has the value True or 1 (and this is an implementation-dependent
> behaviour).
Nitpick: "is not" is an operator:
>>> "foo" is not {}
True
>>> "foo" is (not {})
False
-[]z.
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