On Apr 27, 3:52 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
First of all, thanks for your reply. I am not trying to solve a problem in particular, I know that my way of thinking of very wrong in a python sense and I am simply trying to find the equivalent accepted practice. When you call certain objects __repr__() strings in python you often get the : <Object at Memory Address> happen. I am simply trying to understand how that information can be used to recreate a certain object that failed as per the given purpose of the __repr__() functions. In short, how do I used <Object at Memory Address> strings to recreate a an object. I hope this is clearer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
