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On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 9:43 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:13:44AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

\> Honestly it looks to me like the status quo is perfect.

Does this example work for you?

py> (17.1).hex == (17.1).hex
True

But:

py> a = 17.1
py> b = 17.1
py> a.hex == b.hex
False

I know why it happens -- at the REPL, the interpreter uses the same
object for both 17.1 instances when they're part of the same statement,
but not when they're on separate lines. I just don't know whether this
is desirable or not.

But there's nothing new about that example. It's just the same as the issue that sometimes \`1 is 1\` and sometimes it isn't.

--Guido van Rossum (python.org/\~guido)