On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 6:01 AM Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > One issue with things like vehicle registration numbers is that the VIN > of a vehicle is really a UUID, it is globally unique no other vehicle > will every have that same ID number, and people may not think of the > fact that some other ID numbers, like the SSN do get reused. Since the > Python Object Identities can get reused after the object goes away, the > analogy really needs to keep that clear, and not give the other extreme > of a false impression that the ID won't get reused after the object goes > away.
Licence plate numbers do get reused. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
