[Tutor] Re: When was interned strings dropped (and why)?

[Isr Gish]

I find that only int's and string's have the same id when they are identical.
But list's, tuple's and dictionary's have different id's even if theybare identical.

P.s I'm using Python 2.3.2


-----Original Message-----
   >From: "Abel Daniel"<abli at freemail.hu>
   >Sent: 1/30/04 7:56:01 AM
   >To: "Daniel Ehrenberg"<littledanehren at yahoo.com>
   >Cc: "pytutor"<tutor at python.org>
   >Subject: [Tutor] Re: When was interned strings dropped (and why)?
     >Daniel Ehrenberg writes:
   >
   >> Switch to 2.3. That's what I'm using and I don't have
   >> that bug. Even identical tuples have the same id.
   >
   >Are you sure?
   >
   >Python 2.3.3 (#2, Dec 19 2003, 11:28:07) 
   >[GCC 3.3.3 20031203 (prerelease) (Debian)] on linux2
   >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
   >>>> t=(1,2)
   >>>> tt=(1,2)
   >>>> t is tt
   >False
   >>>> t == tt
   >True
   >>>> id(t)
   >1075955500
   >>>> id(tt)
   >1075798540
   >>>> ttt=t
   >>>> id(ttt)
   >1075955500
   >>>> 
   >
   >Of course, if you define 'identical' as 'having the same id' then 'identical
   >tuples have the same id', but you won't really be able to use this fact.
   >
   >-- 
   >Abel Daniel
   >
   
Good luck
Isr