Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> writes: > Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > > >Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid>: > > > >> (Conversely, I see that unlike CPython, all PyPy's numbers have > >> unchanging ids, even after exiting PyPy and restarting, so it seems > >> that PyPy's numerical ids are "faked".) > > > >What's a faked id? > > You can figure out what I'm getting at -- i.e. I presume that the ids > are not pointers to stored numbers in memory (as with CPython) but are > a translation of the numerical variable's value.
Why refer to that as “faked”? That's what I can't figure out about what you're getting at. Perhaps Marko shares my uncomprehension. The Python language makes no promise about “pointers to stored numbers in memory” for object identity. That is an implementation detail of CPython, and is *explicitly* not promised for any other Python implementation. If you are surprised that object identity appears to have no connection with memory location, then you've made unwarranted assumptions that are explicitly warned against in the Python documentation. -- \ “Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent | `\ with one's own opinion.” —Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's | _o__) Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
