id( ) function question

[Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez]

> It's believable if id({}) does the following:
> 
> 1. Construct an empty dict
> 2. Take the id of the dict
> 3. Reduce the reference-count on the now-unneeded dict.
> 
> It's not too hard for the second empty dict to get allocated in the same 
> memory that the first one (now dereferenced and deallocated) used, so 
> CPython gives it the same id value.

Wow, I never thought about it, but at least in my system, it seems to work like
that:

In [6]: id({1:2}) == id({3:4})
Out[6]: True

Interesting...
(only as a curiosity, though... One shouldn't rely on that)

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