On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> But at any moment, any object has a specific >> location, and no other object can have that same location. Two objects >> cannot both be at the same memory address at the same time. >> > > It is however perfectly possible for one object to be at two or more memory > addresses at the same time.
And of course, memory addresses have to be taken as per-process, since it's entirely possible for two processes to reuse addresses. But I think all these considerations of object identity are made with the assumption that we're working within a single Python process. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list