Accessing Objects Based On Their ID

[Fredrik Lundh]

> longer answer: write a small C extension that casts an integer (or long integer)
> argument to a PyObject, increments the refcount, and returns the object.

here's a pointer to a pointer to such a function, btw:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-October/013715.html

(see other messages in that thread for more on why this is a stupid idea)

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