On 20 Jun 2005 23:30:40 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Andrea Griffini, > >Thanks for explaning this tricky underneath stuff. Actually it's the very logical consequence of the most basic rule about python. Variables are just pointers to values; so every time you assign to a variable you're always changing just that pointer, you're not touching the object pointed to by the variable. Even when x is pointing to an integer with x=x+1 you are computing a new integer (x+1) and making x to point to this new one instead of the old one. You are NOT touching the old integer. Surely this is different from C/C++/Java, but it's IMO all but tricky or underneath. Andrea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
