In Python id('some text') returns the “identity” of an object.
Is there a function that takes a number as argument that can access an item by identity?
e.g.:
print(object_at(id('some text')+1))
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1Why would you add 1 to that number? Accessing arbitrary memory locations will cause an access violation (0xC0000005 on Windows) – Thomas Weller Nov 18 '21 at 19:49
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Not that doesn't rely on implementation details. What are you actually trying to accomplish? – juanpa.arrivillaga Nov 18 '21 at 19:50
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iterate over all identities – dsl400 Nov 18 '21 at 19:52
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Wait, why are you adding 1??? – juanpa.arrivillaga Nov 18 '21 at 19:52
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That doesn't make sense. What does +1 have to do with that? Please explain with more details – juanpa.arrivillaga Nov 18 '21 at 19:54
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The closest thing provided by Python is `gc.get_objects()`, which will return a list of all live objects. You can call `id()` on that list. – Frank Yellin Nov 18 '21 at 19:57
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@juanpa.arrivillaga not one id()+x – dsl400 Nov 18 '21 at 20:45
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@Frank Yellin the idea is to reverse the action of id() and get an object based on the unique identity – dsl400 Nov 18 '21 at 20:47
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@dsl400 **that's what I'm asking**. Why are you adding 1 to the id? – juanpa.arrivillaga Nov 18 '21 at 20:53
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just for fun! is there a reason why I should not ask this kind of questions ? – dsl400 Nov 19 '21 at 17:20
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ok, no addition! `var_a = 'some string' var_b=id(var_a)` is there any solution to get the string from var_a using the value of var_b ? – dsl400 Nov 19 '21 at 17:26
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@dsl400 did you look at the duplicate question? Warning: this is a really bad idea. – MattDMo Nov 19 '21 at 22:28