On Fri, Jul 7, 2017, at 04:12, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Only if you interpret the word "address" very narrowly. > > By the way, even the low-level notion of "address" that C > programs deal with is, on most modern hardware, a *virtual* > address that goes through a level of translation before it > identifies a physical set of transistors, and that mapping > can change as stuff gets paged in and out. So it's already > an abstract concept to some extent.
What's not abstract is that if an object has address X and is N bytes long, those bytes (and any larger subobjects) occupy a contiguous range of addresses between X and X+(N-1). This is not required to be true of Python IDs. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
