Q about object identity

[Tommy Grav]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

> vronskij at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am testing object identity.
>> If I do it from the interpreter, I get strange results.
>>>>> *print [] is []*
>> *False*
>>>>> print id([]), id([])
>> 3083942700 3083942700
>> Why is that? Isn't this an error?

in the first statement the two []'s are in memory at the same
time and have different id() signatures. For the second statement
the first id([]) is evaluated and release from memory and then
the second id([]) is evaluated and release from memory. Since
only one of them exist at a time they can have the same id()
signature.

Cheers
   Tommy