Re: [pypy-dev] x is y <=> id(x)==id(y)

Hi Steven, On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

I have no idea whether this is plausible, or if PyPy already does this, or whether I'm talking sheer nonsense.

PyPy already does this.

Of course the IDs would have to be the same, and that's tricky, but I guess that's what this thread is about.

This is not tricky: the id is the bitpattern seen as an 8-bytes integer. This thread is about the harder cases of strings and tuples. A bientôt, Armin.