Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perfectly all right: you make the point very well that the behavior is > an implementation artifact and not a language feature.
And for those who may be thinking "oh, so I can at least depend on the behaviour within a particular implementation", that's wrong too: implementations are free to (and most will) change that behaviour from one object or assignment to the next, depending on what optimisation choices are made. -- \ "He who allows oppression, shares the crime." -- Erasmus | `\ Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list