Unnamed Python objects have the same id

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From the doc of id(object):

Return the “identity” of an object. This is an 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.

Since the two ranges inside the id() calls have non-overlapping lifetimes, their id values may be the same.

The two ranges assigned to variables have overlapping lifetimes so they must have different id values.

Edit:

A look into the C sources shows us builtin_id:

builtin_id(PyObject *self, PyObject *v)
{
    return PyLong_FromVoidPtr(v);
}

and for PyLong_FromVoidPtr.

PyLong_FromVoidPtr(void *p)
{
#if SIZEOF_VOID_P <= SIZEOF_LONG
    return PyLong_FromUnsignedLong((unsigned long)(Py_uintptr_t)p);
#else

#ifndef HAVE_LONG_LONG
#   error "PyLong_FromVoidPtr: sizeof(void*) > sizeof(long), but no long long"
#endif
#if SIZEOF_LONG_LONG < SIZEOF_VOID_P
#   error "PyLong_FromVoidPtr: sizeof(PY_LONG_LONG) < sizeof(void*)"
#endif
    return PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong((unsigned PY_LONG_LONG)(Py_uintptr_t)p);
#endif /* SIZEOF_VOID_P <= SIZEOF_LONG */

}

So the ID is a memory address.

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