Re: String Identity Test

2009-03-04 Thread Avetis KAZARIAN
Gary Herron wrote: The question now is: Why do you care? The properties of strings do not depend on the implementation's choice, so you shouldn't care because of programming considerations. Perhaps it's just a matter of curiosity on your part. Gary Herron Well, it's not about curiosity,

Re: String Identity Test

2009-03-04 Thread Avetis KAZARIAN
Everything's clear now. Thanks all (especially Christian and Tino) :] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String Identity Test

2009-03-04 Thread Avetis KAZARIAN
Steve Holden wrote: Does PHP really keep only one copy of every string? Not at all. I might have said something confusing if you understood that... So, don't try to translate concepts from one language to another. -- Gabriel Genellina I'll try ;] --

String Identity Test

2009-03-03 Thread Avetis KAZARIAN
After reading the discussion about the same subject ( From: Thomas Moore jsfrank.c...@msa.hinet.net Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:45:56 +0800 ), I tried myself some tests with some confusing results (I'm a beginner with Python, I'm coming from PHP) # 1. Short alpha-numeric String without space a =