Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote: >Dave Farrance <df at see.replyto.invalid> writes: >>> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote: >>>> >Dave Farrance <df at see.replyto.invalid>: >> > >> >> (Conversely, I see that unlike CPython, all PyPy's numbers have >> >> unchanging ids, even after exiting PyPy and restarting, so it seems >> >> that PyPy's numerical ids are "faked".) >> > >> >What's a faked id? >>>> You can figure out what I'm getting at -- i.e. I presume that the ids >> are not pointers to stored numbers in memory (as with CPython) but are >> a translation of the numerical variable's value. >>Why refer to that as “faked”? That's what I can't figure out about what >you're getting at. Perhaps Marko shares my uncomprehension. Hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes