 the same object, you can
use the <tt>is</tt> operator.
</font><pre><font size="4" color="blue">
&gt;&gt;&gt; a = 'banana'
&gt;&gt;&gt; b = 'banana'
&gt;&gt;&gt; a is b
True
</font></pre><font color="black">In this example, Python only created one string object,
and both <tt>a</tt> and <tt>b</tt> refer to it.<br />
<br />
But when you create two lists, you get two objects:
</font><pre><font size="4" color="blue">
&gt;&gt;&gt; a = [1, 2, 3]
&gt;&gt;&gt; b = [1, 2, 3]
&gt;&gt;&gt; a is b
False
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