On Aug 14, 4:42 pm, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Integers > between -5 and +256 are singletons as are some other objects like > strings with one element or empty tuples.
Not quite. Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 28 2008, 08:35:32) [GCC 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = 'A' >>> b = "%c" % a >>> a 'A' >>> b 'A' >>> a is b False > You must not rely on the > optimization. Good advice. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
