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ap_Cooperative_dev answered on December 19, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 4/10

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In general avoid using is , as it has unpredictable behaviour
# hence avoid using is but below is general theory on is

== is for value equality. Use it when you would like to know if two objects have the same value.
is is for reference equality. Use it when you would like to know if two references refer to the same object.
In general, when you are comparing something to a simple type, you are usually checking for value equality,
so you should use ==. For example, the intention of your example is probably to check 
whether x has a value equal to 2 (==), not whether x is literally referring to the same object as 2.

Something else to note: because of the way the CPython reference implementation works, 
you'll get unexpected and inconsistent results if you mistakenly use is to compare for reference equality on integers:

>>> a = 500
>>> b = 500
>>> a == b
True
>>> a is b
False
That's pretty much what we expected: a and b have the same value, but are distinct entities. But what about this?

>>> c = 200
>>> d = 200
>>> c == d
True
>>> c is d
True
This is inconsistent with the earlier result. What's going on here
it turns out the reference implementation of Python caches 
integer objects in the range -5..256 as singleton instances for performance reasons. Here's an example demonstrating this:

>>> for i in range(250, 260):
a=i
print( "%i: %s" % (i, a is int(str(i))) )
... 
250: True
251: True
252: True
253: True
254: True
255: True
256: True
257: False
258: False
259: False
This is another obvious reason not to use is: the behavior is left up to implementations when you're erroneously using it for value equality.

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The Equality operator (==) compares the values of both the operands 
and checks for value equality. 
Whereas the ‘is’ operator checks whether both the operands refer to the 
same object or not (present in the same memory location).

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