Le Tuesday 16 September 2008 18:26:38 Grant Edwards, vous avez écrit : > I was asking where in the specification > <http://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html> it says that all expressions that > return something, return a > new object.
I never said this, I said it's the spirit of python APIs, with some noticeable exceptions (see my first post). But for this case specifically, a + b *should* return a new object, see the documentation of __add__ and __iadd__ special methods, it's clearly stated. The fact that an integer with value "1" is always the same integer in some implementation is unrelated to the original problem. -- _____________ Maric Michaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
