Hello, I tried the following:
import copy
a = 5
b = copy.copy(a)
a is b
True
I was expecting False
I am aware that it is useless to copy an integer
(or any immutable type).
I know that for small integers, there is always a
single integer object in memory, and that for larger
one's there may have many.
a = 7
b = 7
a is b
True
a = 56543
b = 56543
a is b
False
But it seems that Python forbids to have two different
small integer objects with same value even if you
request it with:
a = 5
b = copy.copy(a)
any comments ?
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