addressof object with id()

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Mar 23 20:56:50 EDT 2013


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> You can assume that if the id's are equal, the objects are equal.  But you
> can't assume the inverse or the converse.

To be more specific: If the ids are equal, the objects are identical.
Doesn't mean they'll compare equal - for instance, float("nan") isn't
equal to itself. But for most situations, you can assume that
identical objects compare equal.

ChrisA



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