"S Arrowsmith" <si...intbox.UUCP> wrote: > "Small" integers get a similar treatment: > > >>> a = 256 > >>> b = 256 > >>> a is b > True > >>> a = 257 > >>> b = 257 > >>> a is b > False
This is weird - I would have thought that the limit of "small" would be at 255 - the biggest number to fit in a byte. 256 takes two bytes, so it must be an arbitrary limit - could have been set at 300, or 30 000... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
