Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com> writes: > Fellows, > > I'd like to illutrate the fact that comparing strings using identity > is, most of the time, a bad idea. However I'm searching a short > example of code that yields 2 differents object for the same string > content. > > id('foo') > 3082385472L > id('foo') > 3082385472L > > Anyone has that kind of code ? > > JM
Have you tried this? >>> id("foo") 3078219968L >>> id("bar") 3078219968L >>> And this? >>> id("foo") 3077306560L >>> n = 42 >>> id("foo") 3077306720L And this? >>> "a"*2 is "a"*2 True >>> "a"*30 is "a"*30 False >>> n = 2 >>> "a"*n is "a"*n False -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list