Ben Finney wrote: > 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.
Thanks you, but I know exactly how Python works. I'm actually developing CPython and PythonDotNET. While your description of Python's memory management is technically, it's just an implementation detail of the CPython implementation. Jython and IronPython are using different approaches for GC. Anyway your message doesn't help a newbie and it gives most certainly the wrong impression. You are using words that have a different meaning in other languages. If you explain Python w/o the words variable, pointer, reference or call-by-value you have a much better chance to explain it right. Trust me :) Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
