Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes: > def swapFunc(a, b): > return b, a
That's not what a `swap' function should do. > > Alas, Python is actually slightly confusing here, since the same > > notation `=' sometimes means assignment and sometimes means mutation. > > "=" means just one thing, a rebinding of some identifier to a > different object. Names aren't bound to objects. See elsewhere. > Or, in more general, "=" rebinds the fully qualified name to a > different object, which has the result of mutating a partially qualified > name (a name whose suffix has be removed). Names aren't mutated at all. Values (or, synonymously, objects) are mutated. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
