objects and values if we execute these assignment statementsa 'bananab 'bananawe know that and both refer to stringbut we don' know whether they refer to the same string there are two possible statesa 'bananaa 'bananab 'bananafigure variables and objects in one casea and refer to two different objects that have the same value in the second casethey refer to the same object to check whether two variables refer to the same objectyou can use the is operator 'bananab 'bananaa is true in this examplepython only created one string objectand both and refer to it but when you create two listsyou get two objectsa [ [ is false in this case we would say that the two lists are equivalentbecause they have the same elementsbut not identicalbecause they are not the same object if two objects are identicalthey are also equivalentbut if they are equivalentthey are not necessarily identical until nowwe have been using "objectand "valueinterchangeablybut it is more precise to say that an object has value if you execute [ , , ] refers to list object whose value is particular sequence of elements if another list has the same elementswe would say it has the same value