Re Being Pythonic [ was Re: [MERGE] The eol functionality now issues a warning if a rule is configured (bug 358199) ]

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:11 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> ^- as a 'pythonic' thing, you should always use 'is' to compare with
> None, so it would be:
> 
> if filter is None:
>   ...

OK I am intrigued why is:

	if filter is None : . . . 

more Pythonic than:

	if filter == None : . . . 

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