addressof object with id()

[Peter Otten]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:00:07 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> 
>> In article <mailman.3657.1364085583.2939.python-list at python.org>,
>>  Fabian von Romberg <fromberg100 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have a single questions regarding id() built-in function.
>>> 
>>> example 1:
>>> 
>>> var1 = "some string"
>>> var2 = "some string"
>>> 
>>> if use the id() function on both, it returns exactly the same address.
>> 
>> Yup.
> 
> Nope. Did you actually try it?
> 
> 
> As far as I know, there is no Python implementation that automatically
> interns strings which are not valid identifiers. "some string" is not a
> valid identifier, due to the space.


I don't know about other implementations, but in CPython two equal strings 
in the *same* *compilation* will end up with the same id as a result of 
constant folding. In the interpreter:

>>> a = "some string"
>>> b = "some string"
>>> a is b
False
>>> a = "some string"; b = "some string"; a is b
True

In a script:

$ cat tmp.py
a = "some string"
b = "some string"
print a is b
$ python tmp.py
True