On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> The documentation for strings is also clear that you should not rely on >> this >> optimization: >> >> ... > >> >> >> It >> can, and does, fail on CPython as well, as it is sensitive to memory >> allocation details. > > > If it's that unreliable, why was it ever implemented > in the first place? >
Because someone thought it's a good idea probably and other people asked for a review said +1 :) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
