How do I achieve the effect of the === operator in Python?

Question

How do I achieve the effect of the === operator in Python?

For example, I don\'t want False == 0 to be True.

Answer 1

If you want to check that the value and type are the same use:

x == y and type(x) == type(y)

In Python, explicit type comparisons like this are usually avoided, but because booleans are a subclass of integers it's the only choice here.

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x is y compares identity—whether two names refer to the same object in memory. The Python boolean values are singletons so this will work when comparing them, but won't work for most types.