optimization question

[Terry Reedy]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message
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> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > If seq is one of the standard, builtin, Python sequence types
(string,
> > tuple, list), you can count on seq[i:j] being a new, separate
object.
>
> really?
>
> >>> i = 0
> >>> j = 3
> >>> seq = (1, 2, 3)
> >>> seq[i:j] is seq
> 1
> >>> seq = "123"
> >>> seq[i:j] is seq
> 1

Ok, add: if it is a proper subsequence (which was the context of the
discussion) (or have I missed something else?)

TJR