Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> No, you will never get two objects existing at the same time with the
> same id. You will get two objects that exist at different times with
> the same id, since ids may be reused when the object is deleted.
>
I think it is worth pointing out that this is an area where people get
confused quite often; it is very easily to get misleading results when you
call the id() function. e.g.
>>> class C:
def f(self): pass
def g(self): pass
>>> c = C()
>>> id(c.f)==id(c.g)
True
>>> c.f is c.g
False
The ids are the same here only because the objects do not exist at the same
time. In the first comparison c.f is an expression which creates a
temporary object that is destroyed before the expression involving c.g is
evaluated, so it is possible for the different objects to have the same id.
In the second comparison the objects exist at the same time so they are
forced to have different ids.
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