Memory addressing

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Apr 27, 4:00 pm, Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:56 -0700, Simon Berube wrote:
> > When you call certain objects __repr__() strings in python you often
> > get the : <Object at Memory Address> happen. I am simply trying to
> > understand how that information can be used to recreate a certain
> > object that failed as per the given purpose of the __repr__()
> > functions.
>
> It's not a requirement of repr() that the resulting string be suitable
> for recreating the object. For many built-in object types, calling
> eval() on their repr() will result in a copy of the object, but in
> general eval(repr(obj))==obj will not be true.
>
> > In short, how do I used <Object at Memory Address> strings to recreate
> > a an object.
>
> You don't. What you should do instead depends on what you actually need
> to do, which you haven't said yet. Do you want to pass an object to
> another function, do you want to make a copy of an object, or do you
> want to serialize/unserialize an object to send it through time and/or
> space?
>
> -Carsten

That's what we need: a CopyMemory() routine.