String Identity Test

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"S Arrowsmith" <si...intbox.UUCP> wrote:

> "Small" integers get a similar treatment:
> 
> >>> a = 256
> >>> b = 256
> >>> a is b
> True
> >>> a = 257
> >>> b = 257
> >>> a is b
> False

This is weird - I would have thought that the limit
of "small" would be at 255 - the biggest number to 
fit in a byte.  256 takes two bytes, so it must be
an arbitrary limit - could have been set at 300,
or 30 000...

- Hendrik