Object Equality and Identity
The equality operator x == y tests the values of x and y for equality. In the case of lists and tuples, all the elements are compared and evaluated as true if they’re of equal value. For dictionaries, a true value is returned only if x and y have the same set of keys and all the objects with the same key have equal values.
The identity operators x is y and x is not y test two objects to see whether they refer to the same object in memory. In general, it may be the case that x == y , but x is not y .
Comparison between objects of non-compatible types such as a file and a floating-point number may be allowed, but the outcome is arbitrary and may not make any sense. In addition, comparison between incompatible ...
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