[Python-Dev] id() on Win64

[Fredrik Lundh]

tim wrote:
> [Greg Stein]
> > Regardless: yes, it can certainly break some code. IMO, if any code =
out
> > there makes any kinds of assumptions about id(), then they deserve =
to be
> > broken :-)
>=20
> [Trent Mick]
> > Amen.
>=20
> Guys, it's almost never that simple, and developers are the last ones =
to
> think of the reasonable cases that may break.

especially since it's documented to be an integer:

    id (object)=20
    Return the `identity' of an object. This is an integer which is
    guaranteed to be unique and constant for this object during
    its lifetime.

(section 2.1.4 says that "integer" is the same thing as a "plain
integer", and that "long integer" is something different).

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