Python & the Law of Identity

[Speakpigeon]

Ah well, that settles it then! If the correspondence doesn't apply to Python, the argumentation given in the OP is invalid. Problem solved.

Yes, and I have the sorry job of breaking the sad news to him...
Anyway, thanks for your contribution!
And now I know what 'int" stands for...
EB

 

[NotEinstein]

OK, that sounds more like what I would expect of reasonable people... So he couldn't possibly have done the same trick with Id(A)==Id(A).

Indeed, the same trick cannot work with Id.

Yes, and I have the sorry job of breaking the sad news to him...
Anyway, thanks for your contribution!

No problem; glad I could help out a bit here and there figuring this out.

And now I know what 'int" stands for...

Yes: it's short for "intelligence" in the game Dungeons & Dragons.