[Tutor] When was interned strings dropped (and why)?

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

hcohen2 wrote:
> As you have heard from me too many times: I am using
> ver. 2.2.2 and 
> everytime I id the identical string it has a new
> location.
> 
> It was there in version 2.0.  Supposedly it had an
> advantage in 
> performance, which should not be the primary reason
> for its inclusion.
> 
> What were its drawbacks, for it has obviously been
> dropped.
> 
> I am guessing, but doing a quick search it seems
> that making the 
> formally built-in types objects that are
> subclassable sort of broken the 
> single location for these base type objects.  When
> it is assigned to a 
> variable (instance) it remains at that location.
> 
> Am I on the right track?


Switch to 2.3. That's what I'm using and I don't have
that bug. Even identical tuples have the same id.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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