On 7/19/20 4:30 PM, Thomas Moreau wrote: > Dear all, > > While it would be nice to have simpler identifiers for objects, it > would be hard to make it work for multiprocessing, as objects in > different interpreter would end up having the same repr. Shared > objects (locks) might also have different serial numbers depending on > how many objects have been created before it is communicated to the > child process. > > regards > Thomas > > My guess is that these numbers are the 'id()' of the object, which as an implementation detail in CPython is the object address. If some other method was chosen for generating the object id, then by necessity, there would need to be a method to let multiple interpreters keep the number unique, perhaps some bits being reserved for an interpreter id, and the rest be a serial number.
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