Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > id() returns, in C based Python, the memory address at which an > object is stored. That is all... Names in Python are mapped to the > object -- essentially they are mapped to the address of the object. > There is NO intermediate hidden identifier. > > [snip] > > Object 1 has two names bound to it. But the only way to find out what > those names are requires first having some other reference bound to the > object, and then asking each name if the id() (the address) matches the > id() of the reference in question.
Ahh! I see. That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to a noob. :) Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
