On Mar 18, 2:13 pm, "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > George Sakkis <george.sak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to turn off (either globally or explicitly per > > instance) the automatic interning optimization that happens for small > > integers and strings (and perhaps other types) ? I tried several > > workarounds but nothing worked: > > No. It's an implementation detail. > > What use case do you have for wanting to disable it?
I'm working on some graph generation problem where the node identity is significant (e.g. "if node1 is node2: # do something) but ideally I wouldn't want to impose any constraint on what a node is (i.e. require a base Node class). It's not a show stopper, but it would be problematic if something broke when nodes happen to be (small) integers or strings. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
