On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> wrote: > ``Intern'' the given string. This enters the string in the (global) > table of interned strings whose purpose is to speed up dictionary lookups. > Return the string itself or the previously interned string object with the > same value. >
Thanks, I didn't know of that. It could be useful sometime. Anyways, for the current discussion intern-ing is irrelevant. >>> id('superman') 30792544 >>> id('superman') 30792544 >>> id('superman') 30792544 >>> id('superman') 30792544 >>> id('superman') 30792544 >>> id('super man') 31955768 >>> id('super man') 31955488 >>> id('super man') 31956768 >>> id('super man') 31955768 >>> id('super man') 31955488 Also, http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2009-July/070157.html Roshan Mathews _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers