Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > Since all "variable" names in Python are references to objects, > > anything accessed using a name is accessed by reference. > > Anybody using the terms variable, reference or call-by-value is most > likely explaining Python the wrong way.
The term "reference" is fine, since that's exactly how it works. One gets at an object via some reference, be it a name or some access into a container object. When an object has no more references to itself, it becomes a candidate for garbage collection. And so on. -- \ "I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know | `\ what to feed it." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
