[Tutor] Equality of numbers and Strings

[bob gailer]

On 1/10/2011 11:51 AM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
> well, not predictably unless you understand the specifics of the 
> implementation you're running under.
>
>
> >>> from string import letters
> >>> longstring = letters*100
> >>> otherstring = letters*100
> >>> id(longstring)
> 12491608
> >>> id (otherstring)
> 12100288
> >>> shortstring = letters[:]
> >>> id(letters)
> 11573952
> >>> id(shortstring)
> 11573952
> >>>
>
In my experiment I found that using * to replicate gave different 
results than using the exact literal. That is why in the program I 
posted I used the equivalent of eval("'" + letters*n + "'") which gives 
different results than eval("letters*n")!

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