Newbie look at Python and OO

walterbyrd walterbyrd at iname.com
Thu May 10 17:11:58 EDT 2007


Nevermind my previous question. I found the answer in "Learning
Python"

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Python internally caches and reuses short strings as an optimization,
there really is just a single string, 'spam', in memory, shared by S1
and S2; hence, the is identity test reports a true result. To trigger
the normal behavior, we need to use longer strings that fall outside
the cache mechanism:
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