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		MatthewWilkes on March 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way is should not be used to check string equality, as it is in the space filter. This only works as CPython interns short strings automatically.

bearfrieze on March 27, 2016 [–]

Thanks for pointing this out along with some folks over in the comments on GitHub. I've updated the Gist.

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