Suresh Jeevanandam a écrit : > # I am new to python. > > In python all numbers are immutable. This means there is one object ( a > region in the memory ) created every time we do an numeric operation. I > hope there should have been some good reasons why it was designed this way.
The memory allocation for integers is optimized. 'Small' integers (between -5 and 100 IIRC) are allocated once and reused. The memory for larger integers is allocated once and reused whenever possible, so the malloc() overhead is negligible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
