OT: Re: Just took a look in the perl newsgroup....

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Fredrik Lundh:
> Steven Taschuk wrote:
  [...]
> > Inherently fragile due to reliance on interning of repr(x).
> 
> repr does not intern the result.  but the string type caches single
> character strings (unless you switch that off when building Python)

Yes, that's what I was getting at -- the code relies on the string
repr(x) getting interned, which in the example happens to happen.

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