Recently, I read yet another article that asked people how many oftheir accounts would be compromised if someone got their password ona non-critical website. My answer is simple: none. And I think thatthis should be the answer for most everyone, to the point where itirritates me that it isn't.

I always use unique passwords for each website, generally a strongrandom one . For non-critical websites,I have my browser memorize them for me (and I get irate when this is

Due to writing yesterday's entry , I gotcurious enough to go see how CPython handles the creation of some of thebuilt-in types, and what sorts of optimizations it does. The necessarydisclaimer is that this is for CPython 2.5.1; it doesn't necessarilyapply to other versions of CPython, and it probably doesn't apply at allto other Python implementations (although I expect that they have theirown tricks). Thus, the best use for this is as an illustration