Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Brian Quinlan wrote: > >>> 4) [] and {} always create a new object every time they're evaluated. >> Not quite. The empty tuple is cached: >> >> >>> a = () >> >>> b = () >> >>> a is b >> True > > () isn't [] or {}, though. time to switch to a bigger font? ;-)
Yeah, sorry I'm an idiot. I can't believe that I've been able to program successfully for so long when I can't recognize the different between a dictionary and a tuple :-) Cheers, Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list