How is the 'is' keyword implemented in Python?

Testing strings with is only works when the strings are interned. Unless you really know what you're doing and explicitly interned the strings you should never use is on strings.

is tests for identity, not equality. That means Python simply compares the memory address a object resides in. is basically answers the question "Do I have two names for the same object?" - overloading that would make no sense.

For example, ("a" * 100) is ("a" * 100) is False. Usually Python writes each string into a different memory location, interning mostly happens for string literals.

The is operator is equivalent to comparing id(x) values. For example:

>>> s1 = 'str'
>>> s2 = 'str'
>>> s1 is s2
True
>>> id(s1)
4564468760
>>> id(s2)
4564468760
>>> id(s1) == id(s2)  # equivalent to `s1 is s2`
True

id is currently implemented to use pointers as the comparison. So you can't overload is itself, and AFAIK you can't overload id either.

So, you can't. Unusual in python, but there it is.