On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 2:38 AM, <ip.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm intrigued by the output of the following code, which was totally contrary > to my expectations. Can someone tell me what is happening? > >>>> myName = "Kevin" >>>> id(myName) > 47406848 >>>> id(myName[0]) > 36308576 >>>> id(myName[1]) > 2476000 > > I expected myName[0] to be located at the same memory location as the myName > variable itself. I also expected myName[1] to be located immediately after > myName[0]. >
A string or array in C is allocated in contiguous memory. Python, however, is not C. What you're looking at is the identities of objects, not the memory locations of bytes. Everything you're assuming about C should be discarded. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
