Is behavior of += intentional for int?

[zaur]

On 29 авг, 23:03, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:11:43 -0700, zaur wrote:
> > I thought that int as object will stay the same object after += but with
> > another integer value. My intuition said me that int object which
> > represent integer value should behave this way.
>
> If it did, then you would have this behaviour:
>
> >>> n = 3                     # bind the name n to the object 3
> >>> saved_id = id(n)          # get the id of the object
> >>> n += 1                    # add one to the object 3
> >>> assert n == 4             # confirm that it has value four
> >>> assert id(n) == saved_id  # confirm that it is the same object
> >>> m = 3                     # bind the name m to the object 3
> >>> print m + 1               # but object 3 has been modified
>
> 5
>
> This would be pretty disturbing behaviour, and anything but intuitive.
>
> Fortunately, Python avoids this behaviour by making ints immutable. You
> can't change the object 3 to have any other value, it will always have
> value three, and consequently n+=1 assigns a new object to n.
>
> --
> Steven

This behavior is because small integers are cached internally. See

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 16 2009, 09:17:39)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a=1
>>> c=1
>>> d=10000
>>> e=10000
>>> id(a),id(c),id(d),id(e)
(16793992, 16793992, 17067336, 17067276)