On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:56 pm, MRAB wrote: > On 2015-11-27 02:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The PyPy implementation has to take special actions to preserve the ID >> across object recreations. That is what I mean by "faked". >> > You could argue that it _does_ continue to exist, it just changes its > form... *Something* continues to exist, but it is no longer an object. I like Chris' analogy of it being like quantum mechanics -- the *object* isn't guaranteed to exist except when you try to access it, until then you don't know what form it will take at any instance. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
