SpreadTooThin schrieb: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Nick Vatamaniuc a écrit : >> (snip) >>> In Python all the primitives are copied and all other entities are >>> references. >> Plain wrong. There's no "primitives" (ie : primitive data types) in >> Python, only objects. And they all get passed the same way. > > so.. > def fn(x): > x = x + 1 > print x > > a = 2 > fn(a) > fn(2) > > Wouldn't you say that this is being passed by value rather than by > refrence?
It appears so, but it still is a truth - all objects, even the numbers, are objects. No copying. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
