On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:55:45 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik...@xemacs.org>
wrote:
Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
Utpal Sarkar <doe...@gmail.com> writes:
Is there a way I can tell a variable that the object it is pointing
too is not owned by it, in the sense that if it is the only reference
to the object it can be garbage collected?
Python doesn't have “pointers”, and doesn't really have “variables”
either, at least not how many other languages use that term.
The OP didn't use the term "pointer", but the word "pointing", which
makes sense in the context. The term "variable" is used in the Python
language reference and elsewhere, and is quite compatible with how other
popular languages (Java, PHP, Lisp, ...) use it.
Only superficially. Treating Python variables the same as C variables
(say) is one of the classic ways that newbies come unstuck when mutable
objects appear on the scene. While the OP appears to have the right idea,
your "correction" here could be quite misleading.
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