Difference between is and ==

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  • is compare the reference or the id of the object, otherwise == compare the values.
  • is is faster than == because it does not implement __eq__ in python
  • is usually is used to compare to Singleton objects like None
x is None

References

  • Ramalho, 2022, p201-208
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