Karim, 10.01.2011 17:07:
I am not a beginner in Python language but I discovered a hidden property of immutable elements as Numbers and Strings.s ='xyz' >>> t = str('xyz') >>> id(s) == id(t) True Thus if I create 2 different instances of string if the string is identical (numerically). I get the same object in py db. It could be evident but if I do the same (same elements) with a list it will not give the same result. Is-it because of immutable property of strings and numbers?
AFAIR, all string literals in a module are interned by the CPython compiler, and short strings that look like identifiers are also interned (to speed up dictionary lookups, e.g. for function names). So you will get identical objects in these cases, although it's not a good idea to rely on this as it's an implementation detail of the runtime.
And the second thing that you can observe here is that str() never copies a string you pass in, which is reasonable behaviour for immutable objects.
Thus if I create 2 different instances of string if the string is identical (numerically).
There's no such thing as "numerically identical" strings. It's enough to say that they are identical as opposed to equal.
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