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Re: [pygame] newb: importing pygame

On 5/17/06, altern <altern2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
the code would be much nicer to read like this :

for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type is QUIT:
        elif e.type is KEYUP:
        elif e.type is MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
        # ...


This has nothing to do with the original topic, but just a warning:
you should never use the 'is' comparison with integers (like the
pygame event codes). Only use it when you really want to test for
object identity, because:

a = 1234
a is 1234

False

Both 1234 literals in the above code create a new integer object, so
they have different identity and 'is' comparison fails. Small integer
objects are cached and reused, but you shouldn't count on this
behavior.

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Sami Hangaslammi