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Re: Explanation of list reference

From Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com>
Subject Re: Explanation of list reference
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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Date 2014-02-16 19:16 +0000

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On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:44:39 +0100, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> Am 15.02.14 01:57, schrieb Chris Angelico:
>> Can you give an example of an ambiguous case? Fundamentally, the 'is'
>> operator tells you whether its two operands are exactly the same
>> object, nothing more and nothing less, so I assume your "ambiguous
>> cases" are ones where it's possible for two things to be either the
>> same object or two indistinguishable ones.
> 
> What about the thing I posted down in this thread?
> 
>  >>> import numpy as np a=np.array([1, 2, 3, 4])
>  >>> b=a[:]
>  >>> id(a)
> 140267900969344
>  >>> id(b)
> 140267901045920
> 
> So, a and b are different things, right?
> 
>  >>> b[1]=37 b
> array([ 1, 37,  3,  4])
>  >>> a
> array([ 1, 37,  3,  4])
> 
> Still they are connected. I can imagin that id() is just a debugging
> tool for extensions. What useful applications does it have outside of
> this?
> 
> 	Christian

try id(a[0])
and id(b[0])
the two tupples are different but they both contain the same list



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