> Given the ID of an object, is there a way to access it? For example, > if we have the ID of a class instance, is there a way to invoke its > methods and attributes knowning only that ID? Similarly, if we have the > ID of a function, is there a way to call it?
No. > This comes up because of an implementation I had in mind wherein I > would store the IDs of a notionally linked-list of objects - but without > the link - I just want to store their IDs in the desired order. But > later, when I want to actually use the objects I need a way to get from ID > back to something accessible in the namespace... Why only the id? A list only stores a reference to the object anyway - no copy of it. So you don't gain anything by using the id. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
