On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > strictly speaking Python doesn't have variables, it has names. This will > possibly start a flame war which, by the standards of this ng/ml, will be an > intense conflagration, hence the duck and cover.
The two terms are nearly synonymous when one talks about Python (and both are used in the language reference). I mean, what's so "strict" about the way you're speaking? -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list