I just thought python's way of assigning value to a variable is really different to other language like C,perl. :)
Below two ways (python and perl) are called "pass by reference", but they get different results. Yes I'm reading 'Core python programming', I know what happened, but just a little confused about it. $ cat t1.py def test(x): x = [4,5,6] a=[1,2,3] test(a) print a $ python t1.py [1, 2, 3] $ cat t1.pl sub test { my $ref = shift; @$ref = (4,5,6); } my @a = (1,2,3); test([EMAIL PROTECTED]); print "@a"; $ perl t1.pl 4 5 6 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list