[New-bugs-announce] [issue3236] ints contructed from strings don't use the smallint constants

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

The following says it all:

>>> 1+1 is 2
True
>>> int('2') is 2
False
>>> int(b'2') is 2
False

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 68947
nosy: pitrou
severity: normal
status: open
title: ints contructed from strings don't use the smallint constants
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.0

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