On Nov 22, 9:32 am, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 21, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > >> I have a function that takes a reference to a class, > > > Hmmm... how do you do that from Python code? The simplest way I can > > think > > of is to extract the name of the class, and then pass the name as a > > reference to the class, and hope it hasn't been renamed in the > > meantime... > > Please quit trying to confuse the kids at home. Classes in Python are > first-class objects, and any time you refer to a class or any other > object in Python, what you have is a reference to it.
..which makes the phrase "a reference to an X" a more verbose, redundant version of "an X" since it applies to *every* Python object. You have made your point in the 300+ posts thread, so please quit the terminology trolling in every new thread. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
