[Python-Dev] Caching float(0.0)

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:01:51PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> Each line in an interactive session is compiled separately, like modules
> are compiled separately.  With the current implementation, literals in a
> single compilation unit have a chance to be "cached" like this.  Literals
> in different compilation units, even for the same value, don't.

That makes sense - thanks for the explanation!

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