"/a" is not "/a" ?

[Emanuele D'Arrigo]

On Mar 6, 10:46 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> For b), the rationale is that such string literals
> in source code are often used to denote names, e.g.
> for getattr() calls and the like. As all names are interned,
> name-like strings get interned also.

Thank you Martin, and all others who have responded, I have a much
better picture of the whole issue now. Much appreciated.

Manu