I don't know why the ouput is "True". Help me please!

Question

The output of this code is "True":
a = '''text'''
b = 'text'
print(a is b).
Can you explain to me?
Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

Phúc ,

in this case python shares the data (in memory) "text" for both variables *a* and *b*.

we can check this with using the built-in function id():

...
print(id(a), id(b))

when we add this line to your code, the output for *a* and. *b* will be the same.

if we now modify one of the variables like:

...
b += "!"
print(id(a), id(b))

the id's of the variables are no longer the same

...
print(a is b)

will give *False* now

Answer 2

Lothar Thank you so much