On 2019-02-19, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> On the implementation I am using, the ID changes if I do this: > > You are creating new objects and binding the name ‘a’ to different > objects in succession. Those different objects will each have different > identities.
Those object _may_ each have different identies. Is it required that they do? If an assignment is done on name referring to an object with no other references, would it be allowed that the "old" object is destroyed and its ID reused for a new object being created by the RHS of the assignment? Admittedly, that would be a rather odd way to do things. One would expect that first the RHS is evaluated (perhaps creating a new object), then the name is rebound. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wish I was a at sex-starved manicurist gmail.com found dead in the Bronx!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list