Permanent objects?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Tom Zych [mailto:tztemp13 at pobox.com] 
> 
> Here's an odd thing Python 2.2 does:
> 
[...]
> 
> I'm guessing that Python keeps the integers from -1 to 99 as 
> permanent objects so it doesn't have to create a brand new 
> object for every piddling little [0] and such. Anyone know?

Yes, this has been an undocumented feature for as long as I can remember
(which means 1.4 or so ;-)

-- bjorn