Throw the cat among the pigeons

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2015 05:42 am, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> I would say that a variable that is filled by a range is different as
>> a normal variable. Do not ask me why. ;-)
>
>
> I would say that you are wrong. If I have understood you correctly, that
> cannot possibly be the case in Python, all Python variables work the same
> way[1], and none of them can remember where they came from.

My reading of the code was that one had two variables and the other
had just one. Could be the noise in the numbers came from cache
locality differences.

No difference between the variables, just a peculiarity of CPUs and
how they use memory.

ChrisA