On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote: > This works for longer strings. Does python > compare a new string to every other string > I've made in order to determine whether it > needs to create a new object?
No, it doesn't; but when you compile a module (including a simple script like that), Python checks for repeated literals. It's only good for literals, though. If you specifically need this behaviour, it's called 'interning'. You can ask Python to do this, or you can do it manually. But most of the time, you can just ignore id() and simply let two strings be equal based on their contents; the fact that constants are shared is a neat optimization, nothing more. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
