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Python 3.0a3 (r30a3:61161, Mar 1 2008, 22:51:17) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
>>> a,b=1,1//1
>>> a is b
False
IDLE 3.0a3 
>>> a,b=1,1//1
>>> a is b
True
ditto for 2.5.2 interpreter 
On c.l.p, Duncan Booth wrote
I've had a look to see why this happens: long division (and in Python 3
all integers are longs) allocates a new long to hold the result of the
division so it will never use one of the preallocated 'small int' values.
That maybe explains the change from 2.5 but not the difference from
IDLE. More important, the small int checks are present with the other
operations:
>>> 1*1 is 1
True
>>> 1+1 is 2
True
>>> 1-1 is 0
True
>>> 1**1 is 1
True
so the omission with // is plausibly a bug.