On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> Joe Strout wrote: > > That's not necessarily true. If you have >> >> a = "par" + "rot" >> b = "parrot" >> >> then, most likely (though it depends on how clever the compiler >> optimizations are), there are two different string objects containing the >> data "parrot". >> > > >>> a='par'+'rot' > >>> b='parrot' > >>> a is b > True (this is on Mono. I don't know if the real .NET and/or newer versions of IronPython do this differently) IronPython 1.1 (1.1) on .NET 2.0.50727.42 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >>> a = "par" + "rot" >>> b="parrot" >>> a is b False > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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