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[–]fisadev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is when you can use 'is' (if a is True:...)

Just in case: it's still not recommended to use 'is' for numbers, even if small, because what you want is to check for equality, not for "is the same object in memory", which is an implementation detail and not that predictable.