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Patrick Poplawska
8,826 Points"is" operator is returning True unexpectedly
Interesting behavior (in REPL): favorite_color = 'red' favorite_color is 'red' returns True.
Is this because Python is doing some clever object management in the background, and not creating a new string object containing the value 'red' when I execute the branch expression?
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Patrick Poplawska
8,826 PointsDid a quick search, and by using the id() function I am able to confirm that (even when assigning to another variable) that this behavior is happening because it points to the same address in memory. The variable portion is a consequence of strings being immutable.