[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Which of the above behaviours are reliable? For example, does a1 = > a2 for ints and strings always imply that a1 is a2?
No. > 2) From the programmer's perspective, are ids of ints, floats and > string of any practical significance at all (since these types are > immutable)? No. > 3) Does the behaviour of ids for lists and tuples of the same element > (of type int, string and sometimes even float), imply that the tuple a > = (1,) takes (nearly) the same storage space as a = 10000*(1,)? (What > about a list, where elements can be changed at will?) No. Regards, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
