On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 06:38:30PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> What if use serial numbers to differentiate instances?
I like this idea. It is similar to how Jython and IronPython object IDs
work:
# Jython
>>> id(None)
2
>>> id(len)
3
>>> object()
<object object at 0x4>
> I do not propose to use serial numbers for all objects, because it would
> increase the size of objects and the fixed-size integer can be
> overflowed for some short-living objects created in mass (like numbers,
> strings, tuples). But only for some custom objects implemented in
> Python, for which size and creation time are not critical. I want to
> start with synchronization objects in threading and multiprocessing
> which did not have custom reprs, than change reprs of locks and asyncio
> objects.
This sounds reasonable to me. +1
--
Steven
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