On 2006-07-29 13:47:37, Antoon Pardon wrote: > I think the important thing to remember is that the assignment in Python > is a alias maker and not a copy maker. In languages like C, Fortran, > pascal, the assignment makes a copy from what is on the righthand and > stores that in the variable on the lefthand. In languages like Lisp, > Smalltalk and Python, the assignment essentially makes the lefthand > an alias for the righthand.
Yes, I think I got it now :) It seems that, in essence, Bruno is right in that Python doesn't really have variables. Everything that seems variable doesn't really change; what changes is that an element of what seems to change gets rebound. Which in itself is a rebinding process of a dictionary... I have yet to go there and see whether anything at all changes :) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
