Why does “[] is [ ]” evaluate to False in python

Question

Try this in an interactive python shell.

[] is [ ]

The above returns False, why?

Answer 1

[] is like list(), if you do this:

a = list()
b = list()

clearly a and b are two completly different objects, hence:

a is b # False

like

list() is list() # False

like

[] is [] # False