On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:55 PM, vino19 <vinogra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, I understand that "is" is not "==", cause "is" just compares > id(a)==id(b). > > I have a win32 CPython and the range of "singletons" is from -5 to 256 on my > machine. > > I am asking about what happens in Python interpreter? Why is there a > difference between running one line like "a=1;b=1" and two lines like "a=1 \n > b=1"? Does it decide to locate memory in different types depend on a code?
Ah okay! In that case, I'm guessing this is going to be an oddity of the IDLE system, because it's compiling each line separately. When you put it on a single line, it's saving some trouble by sharing the constant; when you do them separately, it doesn't optimize like that. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
