On 2006-07-25 13:33:40, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> Surprising for me are actually two things: 1- the fact itself, and 2- that >> term "binding", and that whatever it means (I'll have to read more on that, >> now that I know the term) is different for read-only and read/write access. >> > Binding only happens when the bare name is on the LHS of an assignment > (or, to complicate matters, passed as an argument).
This makes a lot more sense now. > Binding has nothing to do with "read-only" vs "read/write" access. Isn't being on the LHS the only way to write to a non-mutable object? Are there situations where binding happens without writing to a variable? Are there write accesses to non-mutable objects where the name is not on the LHS? > Reading is a look-up operation -- you are looking for the object that > "currently" has the "post-it" (which is the Name) attached to it. Thanks, to you and Bruno. I think I got this now, and also why. (And see, here you are talking about reading... see my questions above.) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
