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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi people!
> I have asked myself the following thing.
>
> How do I access the address of an object

id(obj) happens to do that in CPython, but it's a mere implementation detail.

> and later get the object from
> that address ?!

Not possible.

> I am heavily interisted.

Why?

Cheers,
Chris