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beza1e1 andreas.zwinkau at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 23 09:00:03 EDT 2005 
>>> id("blub")
-1210548288

This is not identity in a mathematical view.

def identity(x): return x

It has is uses. I had some kind of parser and had a dict like this:
{case: function, ...} It had to be a dict, because i wanted to
dynamically add and remove cases. In some cases nothing had to be done.
To represent this in the dict a identity function is needed. There
surely are other ways, but identity was the most expressive in my eyes.

Nice read, by the way. Thanks for sharing ;)
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