"Georg Brandl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tobiah wrote: >> Suppose I fill an list with 100 million random integers in the range >> of 1 - 65535. Wouldn't I save much memory if all of the ocurrances >> of '12345' pointed to the same integer object? Why should more be made, >> when they all do the same thing, and are not subject to change? > > Because for typical usage of integers (which doesn't include your > example), > it is more expensive to check if there's already an integer with that > specific > value out there than to create a new one.
I am not sure what you are saying. Every (C) int is checked to see if it is in the preallocated range before making a new Python int object. The reason for the low limit is the various time-space tradeoffs applied across the entire range of programs. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
