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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:30:51 -0400
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:03:36 +0530, Krishnan Shankar
<i.am.songoku@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>
>>>> a=10
>>>> id(a)
>21665504
>>>> b=a
>>>> id(b)
>21665504
>>>> c=10
>>>> id(c)
>21665504
>
>I am actually assigning new value to c. But from the value of id() all
>three variables take same location. With variables a and b it is ok. But
>why c taking the same location?
>

	Because id(n) is not giving you the address of the NAME. It is giving
you the address of the "10" -- and small integers are cached and reused in
most Python implementations.

	Compare:

>>> a = 12345
>>> id(a)
56674472L
>>> b = a
>>> id(b)
56674472L
>>> c = 12345
>>> id(c)
56674688L
>>> a = 11
>>> id(a)
4472248L
>>> b = a
>>> id(b)
4472248L
>>> c = 11
>>> id(c)
4472248L
>>> 
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