In article <hl6ilk$f7...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no> wrote:
>
>My original statement, with reference to the Java language spec,
>didn't say much more about the language than that it has assignable
>references.
Assuming this is what you're referring to:
Python passes pointers by value, just as e.g. Java does.
Then you are simply, completely, totally, and absolutely wrong. Period.
Regardless of how CPython manages its state internally, Python as a
programming language does not have pointers.
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