Accessing Object Memory Address

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The Python manual has this to say about id():

Return the “identity” of an object.
This is an integer (or long integer)
which is guaranteed to be unique and
constant for this object during its
lifetime. Two objects with
non-overlapping lifetimes may have the
same id() value. (Implementation note:
this is the address of the object.)

So in CPython, this will be the address of the object. No such guarantee for any other Python interpreter, though.

Note that if you’re writing a C extension, you have full access to the internals of the Python interpreter, including access to the addresses of objects directly.

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