Erik Max Francis wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > >> Robert Dailey wrote: >> >>> I noticed in Python all function parameters seem to be passed by >>> reference. This means that when I modify the value of a variable of a >>> function, the value of the variable externally from the function is >>> also modified. >>> >>> Sometimes I wish to work with "copies", in that when I pass in an >>> integer variable into a function, I want the function to be modifying >>> a COPY, not the reference. Is this possible? >> >> >> Not only is this possible, that is actually what happens with ints! > > > But that's because ints are immutable, not because there is an explicit > copy of anything being made. >
Yes. I was taking his quotes around "copies" to mean a description of behavior and not implementation. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
