On Mar 26, 5:12 pm, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:04 +0100, Michał Bentkowski wrote: > > Why does python create a reference here, not just copy the variable? > > Python, like most other oo languages, will always make references for =, > unless you work on native types (numbers and strings).
The = operator behaves exactly the same way for mutable and immutable types. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list