Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> When I talk about an object's memory address, I'm not referring to >> what might be revealed by gdb, for example. That is, I'm not talking >> about the process's virtual address space, nor am I talking about the >> physical address on the address bus. I can simply define that the >> object's memory address is whatever id() returns. > > Where's the complaints about circularity now? You're saying "But of > course id() returns the address, as long as we define the address as > 'whatever id() returns'.". Unimpeachably logical and utterly > unhelpful.
Main thing, no harm done. The memory address is neither right nor wrong. It's completely irrelevant since it doesn't occupy a place in Python's data model. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list