> x = intern('12345'*4)
> nx = id(x)
> del x
> ...do something else...
> y = intern('12345'*4)
> ny = id(y)
>
> nx doesn't necessarily equal ny any more. This is a backward
> incompatibility
If you wrote something like that *expecting* the strings
to be immortal, there would be no reason to bother with
the ids -- just keep references to the strings themselves.
If you *weren't* expecting them to be immortal, there would
be no reason to expect the ids to be equal anyway.
So I agree -- it's not a problem.
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+
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