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o11c on Nov 7, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't return named tuples in new APIs

I mean that the `id` function returns by value. It's not interning since that explicitly refers to something allocated, which isn't the case here.

ericvsmith on Nov 7, 2024 [–]

This is incorrect. The returned integer is a regular Python object, not some "unboxed" integer value.

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