This is one of the most commonly misused Python features and it fails silently, which makes it especially dangerous in production code.
a = "hello"
b = "hello"
print(a == b)
print(a is b)
This is one of the most commonly misused Python features and it fails silently, which makes it...
This is one of the most commonly misused Python features and it fails silently, which makes it especially dangerous in production code.
a = "hello"
b = "hello"
print(a == b)
print(a is b)

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