Understanding memory location of Python variables

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:38 PM,  <ip.bcrs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm intrigued by the output of the following code, which was totally contrary to my expectations. Can someone tell me what is happening?
>
>>>> myName = "Kevin"
>>>> id(myName)
> 47406848
>>>> id(myName[0])
> 36308576
>>>> id(myName[1])
> 2476000
>
> I expected myName[0] to be located at the same memory location as the myName variable itself. I also expected myName[1] to be located immediately after myName[0].
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Others can probably give a more complete explanation, but small
numbers, and apparently letters are cached since they are so common.

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