[Python-Dev] ctypes: is it intentional that id() is the only way to get the address of an object?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 1:51 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Across the entire Python ecosystem, no it isn't, as Jython and
> IronPython return consecutive integers. But should we consider it an
> intentional part of the CPython API?

It's always worked, there's substantial code in the wild that depends
on it, and AFAICT it doesn't cause any real harm, so to me it seems
like the only possible conclusion is that CPython will continue to
guarantee this.

For this argument I don't think it matters whether it was originally
intentional, or whether there's some other alternative that people
could use in theory.

-n

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