On 07/04/2012 09:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > I just came across this (https://gist.github.com/1208215): > > import sys > import ctypes > pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5)) > five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p) > print(2 + 2 == 5) # False > five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4 > print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2 there...) > > Heh. The author is apparently anonymous, I guess for good reason. >
I'm reminded of the swap(a,b) function I wrote a couple of years back. http://blog.jollybox.de/archives/62-python-swap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
