Sure. `==` should be used for such comparisons, not `is`, as the latter is seman...

jacobolus on March 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lambda’s New Coat: 21st century syntactic Mexps

Sure. `==` should be used for such comparisons, not `is`, as the latter is semantically different. They have the same effect for "apricot" because Python interns strings up to length 20:

  >>> "1"*20 is "1"*20
  True
  >>> "1"*21 is "1"*21
  False