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On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:44:40 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
declaimed the following:

>In <mudnfg$cqo$1@speranza.aioe.org> alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> writes:
>
>> why not simply use pythons builtin id function?
>> each new instance of an object is automatically assigned a unique ID
>
>It's only guaranteed to be unique for objects that exist at the same time.
>
>If an object is created and destroyed and then another new object is
>created, the ID of those two objects can be the same.

	Since the code binds the object to the resultant entry
(registry[id]=self) -- it isn't going to go away without deliberately
rebinding the entry.

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