From 4dab09907931ae13833572075249be92efccace2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleksandar Jelenak <ajelenak@hdfgroup.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 09:51:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix lint warning

---
 src/h5json/hdf5db.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/h5json/hdf5db.py b/src/h5json/hdf5db.py
index a41648d..27f2094 100644
--- a/src/h5json/hdf5db.py
+++ b/src/h5json/hdf5db.py
@@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ def getDatasetValuesByUuid(self, obj_uuid, slices=Ellipsis, format="json"):
                 raise IOError(errno.EINVAL, msg)
             # numpy object type - could be a vlen string or generic vlen
             h5t_check = h5py.h5t.check_dtype(vlen=dt)
-            if h5t_check == str or h5t_check == bytes:
+            if h5t_check is str or h5t_check is bytes:
                 values = self.bytesArrayToList(dset[slices])
             elif h5t_check is not None:
                 # other vlen data