Shared immutable strings.
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What is string interning in Python?
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strinterning
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CPython stores certain strings (identifiers, short literals) in an intern pool so equal strings share one object, speeding up dict/identifier comparisons.
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PYAuto-interned literals vs a runtime-built string
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