http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/identity-batchmode/2010-04-14T19:52:33-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2010-04-14T19:52:33-07:00Ed Blakehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173678/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577194-default-arg-special-action/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577194 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173678/">Ed Blake</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/default_arguments/">default_arguments</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/identity/">identity</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/oop/">oop</a>). </p> <p>A way to allow functions with 0, 1, and -1 arguments! For those times you want to differentiate a no value argument from a non-value argument.</p>

2008-08-16T19:41:37-07:00nosklohttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4166478/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576426-get-index-of-element-in-list-using-identity/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576426 by <a href="/recipes/users/4166478/">nosklo</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/compare/">compare</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/comparision/">comparision</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/find/">find</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/identity/">identity</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/index/">index</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/is/">is</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/same_object/">same_object</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/search/">search</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>my_list.index(element) returns the index of the element using common comparision (as in == or __eq__() or __cmp__()). If you need to find an element on the list using identity comparing (is) then this function can do it for you</p>