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Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?

From random832@fastmail.us
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Subject Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?
Date 2013-12-20 10:24 -0500
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.4435.1387553077.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Dec 20, 2013, at 10:16, dec135@msn.com wrote:
> The second time we type print type y, how does the program knows which
> one of the y's it refers to ?  Is the first y object deleted ?

y does not refer to the first object anymore after you've assigned the
second object to it. In CPython, if there are no other references to the
string object, yes it is deleted - other implementations may defer
deletion to a later time.

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Newbie question. Are those different objects ? dec135@msn.com - 2013-12-20 07:16 -0800
  Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? random832@fastmail.us - 2013-12-20 10:24 -0500
  Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 07:34 -0800
    Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-20 16:00 +0000
      Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 09:10 -0800
        Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-20 17:29 +0000
        Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 09:59 -0800
        Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-12-21 10:56 +1300
          Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-23 08:19 +0000
      Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-21 12:58 +0000
        Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-12-21 11:54 -0500
        Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-22 05:39 +1100
        Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-21 19:17 +0000
      Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-12-23 11:31 +1000
    Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 10:24 -0800
  Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? bob gailer <bgailer@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 12:02 -0500
  Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-20 10:06 -0800
  Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-20 16:56 -0500
  Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-12-21 14:08 -0500

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