no two interned strings have the same content (across an interpreter); two interned strings can be safely compared using pointer equality (Python is). This is used to optimize dict and attribute ...

Every programming language aims to be performant in its niche and achieving superior performance requires a bunch of compiler and interpreter level optimizations. Since character Strings are an ...

When checking if two variables are the 'same thing' in Python, we distinguish between ==, which checks if the values are the same, and is, which checks if the memory addresses (the actual objects) are ...