Question re class variable
John Gordon
gordon at panix.com
Tue Sep 29 10:44:40 EDT 2015
In <mudnfg$cqo$1 at speranza.aioe.org> alister <alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com> writes:
> why not simply use pythons builtin id function?
> each new instance of an object is automatically assigned a unique ID
It's only guaranteed to be unique for objects that exist at the same time.
If an object is created and destroyed and then another new object is
created, the ID of those two objects can be the same.
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