Kirk McDonald wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: <an elaboration on ids and refcounts> > > You know what? That makes perfect sense. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for mentioning this. I do try to help out, and sometimes it feels like talking to the wind. A thanks every now and then is greatly appreciated. Just for fun, you can play with: import sys sys.getrefcount(123**18) vs. sys.getrefcount(12) You should know that 'small' integers are kept and shared once built. Similarly, some strings (including all one-character strings and strings that might be identifiers). sys.getrefcount('a') sys.getrefcount('probably_not_really_a_variable') --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list