Stef Mientki said unto the world upon 05/22/2007 07:44 PM:
> hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a simple functional simulator for JAL (a Pascal-like
> language for PICs).
> My first action is to translate the JAL code into Python code.
> The reason for this approach is that it simplifies the simulator very much.
> In this translation I want to keep the JAL-syntax as much as possible intact,
> so anyone who can read JAL, can also understand the Python syntax.
>
> One of the problems is the alias statement, assigning a second name to an
> object.
> I've defined a class IO_port,
> and I create an instance of that port with the name port_D
>
> port_D = IO_port('D')
>
> Now I want to assign a more logical name to that port,
> (In JAL: "var byte My_New_Name IS port_D")
>
> Is that possible ?
>
> I think the answer is "no",
> because the object itself is not mutable.
> Am I right ?
>
> But I read: "An object can have any number of names, or no name at all."
> So am I wrong ?
>
> Sorry this has been discussed before, but I'm totally confused.
>
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki
>
Stef,
You can have multiple names pointing to an object. Consider:
>>> class Example(object):
... pass
...
>>> c1 = Example()
>>> c2 = c1
>>> id(c1), id(c2)
(136764076, 136764076)
>>> c1, c2
(<__main__.Example object at 0x826daac>, <__main__.Example object at
0x826daac>)
>>> del(c2)
>>> c1, c2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'c2' is not defined
>>> c1
<__main__.Example object at 0x826daac>
>>>
HTH,
Brian vdB
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