An unusual question...

Mon Apr 18 18:42:00 EDT 2011

On 2011年4月18日 08:01:00 +0100, <wisecracker at tesco.net> wrote:
> Hi Rhodri...
>>> You do realise that what id() returns is implementation-dependent, don't
>> you? In particular, what IronPython returns isn't an address.
>> I'm pretty sure I wrote "standard Python" install in one of my replies.
>> Yeah here it is in a reply to Miki...
>> "Hmm, I was hoping to stay inside a standard Python install."

IronPython *is* a standard Python install. So is CPython, the one I 
presume you mean. Even that doesn't offer you any guarantee that it isn't 
going to change what id() returns from one version to the next. Relying 
on implementation-defined behaviour like this is a good way of getting 
code to blow up in your face. You'll get much more reliable results by 
starting in a language that was actually intended for direct memory 
access, like C, and wrapping that in Python.
-- 
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses