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On 05/07/2012 15:34, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> On 2012-07-04 21:37, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> I just came across this (https://gist.github.com/1208215):
>>
>>      import sys
>>      import ctypes
>>      pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5))
>>      five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p)
>>      print(2 + 2 == 5) # False
>>      five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4
>>      print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2 there...)
>>
>> Heh.  The author is apparently anonymous, I guess for good reason.
>
>   >>> five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4
>   >>> 5
> 4
>   >>> 5 is 4
> True
>
> But this I don't understand:
>
>   >>> 5+0
> 4

5 is interned as 4, 0 is interned as 0, 4+0 is calculated as 4 and then
interned as 4.

>   >>> 5+1
> 4

5 is interned as 4, 1 is interned as 1, 4+1 is calculated as 5 and then
interned as 4.

>   >>> 5+2
> 6
>
5 is interned as 4, 2 is interned as 2, 4+2 is calculated as 6 and then
interned and 6.

Simple really! :-)