On Mar 6, 10:46 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > For b), the rationale is that such string literals > in source code are often used to denote names, e.g. > for getattr() calls and the like. As all names are interned, > name-like strings get interned also.
Thank you Martin, and all others who have responded, I have a much better picture of the whole issue now. Much appreciated. Manu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
