Steve Holden wrote: > Jeff Schwab wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] >>> Now there's no reason to feel nervous about this. All you have to >>> remember is that Python never copy anything unless explicitely asked >>> for. >> >> It's not that simple. After a statement like: >> >> a = b >> >> Whether a and b denote the same object depends on what kind of object >> b represented in the first place. > > Surely this is exactly wrong. Is there a single example you can think of > where > > a = b
a += b (my bad) > assert a is b, "Oops!" > > would raise and exception? Perhaps you meant to use an augmented > assignment operation? Why, yes I did! Sorry about that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
