Where's the documentation to support the following behavior...

[Emile van Sebille]

grocery_stocker wrote:
> On Mar 17, 3:22 pm, Emile van Sebille <em... at fenx.com> wrote:
>> grocery_stocker wrote:
>>> It seems like id(list[<some value>]) == id(<some value>).
>> It might seem that way, but test with other than single-character
>> strings, eg lists like [7],[8],[9] and try again.
> I still get the same thing...

Well, yes -- because you're still testing the same things.  I meant of 
course to test other things, like lists as in:

 >>> for ii in [[7],[7],[8],[8],[9],[9]]: id(ii)
...
16607992
16608952
16609032
16608992
16608832
16608872
 >>>

What you're testing is the content of the list elements, more like:

 >>> for ii in [[7],[7],[8],[8],[9],[9]]: id(ii[0])
...
15424016
15424016
15424004
15424004
15423992
15423992
 >>>

And as you've heard, interning is at the root of the apparent sameness..

Emile