<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |I understand the parameters to Python functions are passed by reference:
Nope. Python's name-object model is so far different from the named memory block model of Fortran/C/etc that terms invented for the latter are misleading when applied to Python. Argument objects (or the contents thereof, or lists or dicts constructed therefrom) are bound to parameter names. (See the archives for endless discussion of what to call this.) | def foo(a): | a = a + 1 | | Will change the value of a in the calling function. Nope. Try it with the interactive interpreter (or IDLE, etc, equivalent). Only takes a minute to test whatever you meant by that.tjr | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
