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Re: How does python know?

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> wrote:
> This works for longer strings.  Does python
> compare a new string to every other string
> I've made in order to determine whether it
> needs to create a new object?

No, it doesn't; but when you compile a module (including a simple
script like that), Python checks for repeated literals. It's only good
for literals, though.

If you specifically need this behaviour, it's called 'interning'. You
can ask Python to do this, or you can do it manually. But most of the
time, you can just ignore id() and simply let two strings be equal
based on their contents; the fact that constants are shared is a neat
optimization, nothing more.

ChrisA

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How does python know? Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2014-02-12 12:17 -0800
  Re: How does python know? Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2014-02-12 12:27 -0800
    Re: How does python know? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-02-12 16:59 -0500
  Re: How does python know? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 07:33 +1100
  Re: How does python know? Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2014-02-12 13:02 -0800
  Re: How does python know? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 20:54 -0500

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