Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:43:01 -0700, Ken Seehart wrote: > >> You can also use ctypes to globally change the value of integers less >> than 101. Personally, I don't particularly like the number 14. I >> changed it to 9 and I am much happier now. > > Okay, you've got me curious. How do you do that, and why only up to 101?
Up to 256 in current Python. Small integers are shared to save memory. After a quick look into the ctypes tutorial and the python source I came up with # 64-bit linux >>> from ctypes import * >>> libc = cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6") >>> libc.memset(id(14)+16, 0, 8) 7742336 >>> 14 0 >>> 14 == 0 True Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list