about id()...

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Jeff Pinyan wrote:

> Hmm.  Blah:
> 
>   for a in range(150):
>     if id(a) != id(a+0): print a
> 
> gives me numbers from 100 to 149.
> 
> Why is this?  It's some internal magick on Python's part, isn't it...

If a and b are immutables, then it is only guranteed that id(a) == id(b)
implies a == b. Python can do whatever it wants, other then that.

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