On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:41 -0700, Simon Berube wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather simple question for which I couldn't find an > answer. I noticed how a significant number of objects in Python return > a __repr__() string along the lines of : > > < Object at 0xXXXXXX> > > I find this notation quite convenient to avoid out of control > strings when using large arrays but I was wondering how you can use > the memory address for assigning a new object.
You can't. > In c, one could simple have a pointer to that memory address and > voila, you have a new object you can analyze however it seems like > python is allergic to direct memory manipulation. For good reason. Python is not C. > Hence, I was wondering what is the correct way to go about obtaining > objects returned in such a fashion? What am I going wrong or what am I > not getting? What is the actual problem you're trying to solve? -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
