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remove lineskip and bolden string interning in contents.md

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Jonathan H 2018-02-25 18:00:39 +00:00
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Makes sense, right?
#### 💡 Explanatios:
+ Such behavior is due to CPython optimization (called **string interning**) that tries to use existing immutable objects in some cases rather than creating a new object every time.
+ Note that the keyword `is` is used for _reference_ equality (unlike `==` which is used for _value_ equality); this means that `a is b` is the same as `id(a) == id(b)`, and therefore it should not be used for string comparison. It is only used here to illustrate the effects of string interning.
+ After being interned, many variables may point to the same string object in memory (thereby saving memory).

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Makes sense, right?
#### 💡 Explanation:
+ Such behavior is due to CPython optimization (called string interning) that tries to use existing immutable objects in some cases rather than creating a new object every time.
+ Such behavior is due to CPython optimization (called **string interning**) that tries to use existing immutable objects in some cases rather than creating a new object every time.
+ Note that the keyword `is` is used for _reference_ equality (unlike `==` which is used for _value_ equality); this means that `a is b` is the same as `id(a) == id(b)`, and therefore it should not be used for string comparison. It is only used here to illustrate the effects of string interning.
+ After being interned, many variables may point to the same string object in memory (thereby saving memory).
+ In the snippets above, strings are implicitly interned. The decision of when to implicitly intern a string is implementation dependent. There are some facts that can be used to guess if a string will be interned or not: