On Mar 10, 1:39 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Craig Allen <callen...@gmail.com> writes: > > it raises an interesting question about why doesn't it. I can think > > of practical answers to that, obviously, but in principle, if a > > function compiles to exactly the same byte code, you obviously do not > > need two copies of it, and like strings shouldn't an identical > > function have the same id? > > Identical strings don't necessarily have the same id: > > >>> a = "a"*1000 > >>> b = "a"*1000 > >>> id(a),id(b) > (137143648, 137144680) > >>> a==b > True
interesting, I thought they were supposed to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list