[Tutor] Integer ID Caching

[wormwood_3]

I came across the topic of internal Python IDs recently, and learned that the internal numeric ids of small integers are cached to increase speed. I had read that as of 2.5, this applied to integers between -1 and 100. However, doing some quick tests, this seems not to be accurate:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  2 2007, 16:56:35) 
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
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>>> a = 10
>>> b = 10
>>> print id(a), id(b)
135716556 135716556
>>> c = 250
>>> d = 250
>>> print id(c), id(d)
135719604 135719604
>>> e = 300
>>> f = 300
>>> print id(e), id(f)
135718812 135718824

So the upper end of the interning range appears to be between 250 and 300, not 100.

Does anyone know the exact number, when it changed, and if a decision has been made for future changes? I was unable to find anything specific to this in the documentation.

Thanks as always,
Sam