id( ) function question

[Andre Engels]

What is going on is that a few objects that are often used, in
particular the small (how small is small depends on the
implementation) integers, are 'preloaded'. When one of these is then
referred to, a new object is not created, but the pre-defined object
is used. 10 is apparently a preloaded constant in your implementation,
1e10 is not.

As far as I know, only None is _guaranteed_ to be such a preloaded
object, so one should not rely on it in implementations.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:46 PM, raffaele ponzini
<raffaele.ponzini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have a question concerning the output of the id() function.
> In particular since is should:
> ""
> Return the identity of an object.  This is guaranteed to be unique among
> simultaneously existing objects.  (Hint: it's the object's memory address.)
> ""
> i expect that for two differnt objects it returns two differnt adress in memory.
>
> Let's seee a correct case:
>>>> a=10
>>>> b=20
>>>> a is b
> False
>>>> id(a)
> 9986060
>>>> id(b)
> 9985940
>>>> c=a
>>>> c is a
> True
>>>> id(c)
> 9986060
>>>> id(a)
> 9986060
>
> And now a strange (for me) output:
>>>> d=10 #here i'm assingning a integer value to a fresh new variable d without any kind of  link to the variable a
>>>> d is a
> True
>>>> d==a
> True
>>>> id(a)
> 9986060
>>>> id(b)
> 9985940
>>>> id(d)
> 9986060
>>>> a=1e10
>>>> d=1e10
>>>> d is a
> False
>>>> id(a)
> 11388984
>>>> id(d)
> 11388920
>>>>
>
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