Introduction

An identity operator of python compares the memory locations of objects. Python provides the two in-built identity operators:

Examples

Example 1:

num = 5.0
if (type(num) is int):
    print("True")
else:
    print("False")

Output:

False

Example 2:

num = 5.0
if (type(num) is float):
    print("True")
else:
    print("False")

Output:

True

Example 3:

num = 5.1
if (type(num) is float):
    print("True")
else:
    print("False")

Output:

True

Example 4:

num = 5.1
if (type(num) is not float):
    print("True")
else:
    print("False")

Output:

False

Example 5:

sample1 = []
sample2 = []
sample3 = sample1
print(id(sample1))
print(id(sample2))
print(id(sample3))


if(sample1 is sample2):
    print(True)
else:
    print(False)
   
if(sample1 is sample3):
    print(True)
else:
    print(False)


if(sample1 is not sample2):
    print(True)
else:
    print(False)


if(sample1 is not sample2):
    print(True)
else:
    print(False)

Output:

140600379006464
140600378378560
140600379006464
False
True
True
True

From the above code, we can see that the variable sample1 and sample3 points to the same object whereas sample2 points to another object.