Accessing Objects Based On Their ID

[Terry Reedy]

"Tim Daneliuk" <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote in message 
news:uc39e2-63h1.ln1 at eskimo.tundraware.com...
> Given the ID of an object, is there a way to access it?
You got the right short answer already.
Another long answer 'yes' is to keep a dictionary mapping ids to objects, 
but as Diez pointed out, you need a real reason to do this.

In some respects, id() is like a siren (in the mythological sense) that 
Python would be better off without.

Terry J. Reedy