just curious, how can this identity function be used ? In haskell, because all functions are curried, I can sort of visualize/understand how id is used. Not quite understand how it can be used in python.
beza1e1 wrote: > >>> id("blub") > -1210548288 > > This is not identity in a mathematical view. > > def identity(x): return x > > It has is uses. I had some kind of parser and had a dict like this: > {case: function, ...} It had to be a dict, because i wanted to > dynamically add and remove cases. In some cases nothing had to be done. > To represent this in the dict a identity function is needed. There > surely are other ways, but identity was the most expressive in my eyes. > > Nice read, by the way. Thanks for sharing ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list