[BangPypers] python id function

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  Python caches immutable objects - which is why they are immutable
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 Should correct myself here - this means that *all* immutables are
cached. I did not mean that - what I meant that *only* immutables
are cached. So read it as "Python caches some immutable objects"
 and skip the "which is..." part. :)


>  and saves memory if u reference the same immutable in many
>  places. So small integers, empty tuples and such are actually
>  cached in Python runtime, so you keep getting back the same object
>  and hence the same id.
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> A few examples (as above).
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