Chris Angelico writes: > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Jussi Piitulainen > <jussi.piitulai...@helsinki.fi> wrote: >> Incidentally, let no one point out that ids are not memory addresses. >> It says in the interactive help that they are (Python 3.4.0): >> >> Help on built-in function id in module builtins: >> >> id(...) >> id(object) -> integer >> >> Return the identity of an object. This is guaranteed to be unique >> among simultaneously existing objects. (Hint: it's the object's >> memory address.) > > Sorry, not the case. > > > Help on built-in function id in module builtins: > >>>> help(id) > id(obj, /) > Return the identity of an object. > > This is guaranteed to be unique among simultaneously existing objects. > (CPython uses the object's memory address.) > >>>> help(id) > Help on built-in function id in module __builtin__: > > id(...) > >>>>> help(id) > Help on built-in function id in module __builtin__: > > id(...) > Return the identity of an object: id(x) == id(y) if and only if x is y. > > > The interactive help does not say that in any version newer than the > 3.4 that you tested. The function does not return an address, it > returns an identity.
Excellent. I'm happy to withdraw the prohibition. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
