On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:29:44 GMT, "Matt Gerrans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Actually i was not mutable. Try this: >i = 1 >id(i) >i += 1 >id(i) Looks like I will have to read the Language Reference anyway. :-( <snip, thanks> >Because you are assigning the local reference variable L to a new list, >instead of modifying that original default list that was created. >Is that more clear, or is it now more unclear? ;) Clear now, but I have to say for someone who's been doing some C programming in the past it is pretty confusing, because I'm used to think of any variable as basically a place in memory with a pointer to it, so anything without #define or const was considered "mutable" (gawd I still hate pointers). C-style thinking considered harmful when programming in Python. :o) -- It's a man's life in a Python Programming Association. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
