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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2016-09-11 17:23:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2016-09-11 17:23:49 -0700 |
| commit | 3f5c02a54c22b1454a250fe61d832ba5d5a126d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 57af7d653cf557ebbf9ec734312c10756d68b6ab | |
| parent | fba66722b4de0207192f2f9e6d081230e777a070 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-3f5c02a54c22b1454a250fe61d832ba5d5a126d2.tar.gz | |
Issue #26511: Reference the id() function in the 'is' and 'is not' docs
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/expressions.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index eafd70a835..08938b23c2 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -1315,8 +1315,9 @@ Identity comparisons -------------------- The operators :keyword:`is` and :keyword:`is not` test for object identity: ``x -is y`` is true if and only if *x* and *y* are the same object. ``x is not y`` -yields the inverse truth value. [#]_ +is y`` is true if and only if *x* and *y* are the same object. Object identity +is determined using the :meth:`id` function. ``x is not y`` yields the inverse +truth value. [#]_ .. _booleans: |