Aahz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> There's nothing like a variable "storing" anything in Python. All you >>> have are names to (references to) objects binding in a namespace. Now >>> the fact is that some types are mutable and other are not. In your >>> above example, the augmented assignment does *not* rebind a, but >>> invoke a.extend(). With integers, it would have rebind a. So while >>> your observation is exact, your interpretation is wrong !-) >> Thank you for the clarification. For some reason, I had it in my head >> that ints were packed directly into the C structures that represent >> Python variables, in the same (union?) member that otherwise would store >> a pointer. > > Notice very very carefully that Bruno is not using "variable". Many > expert Python programmers strongly prefer to talk about "names" instead > of "variables" (especially when explaining the Python object model) > precisely because using "variable" leads to incorrect expectations. > > http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/objectthink.html
So what is the "variable?" Or is Python the first HLL I've ever heard of that didn't have variables? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
