On Fri, Dec 20, 2013, at 10:16, dec...@msn.com wrote: > The second time we type print type y, how does the program knows which > one of the y's it refers to ? Is the first y object deleted ?
y does not refer to the first object anymore after you've assigned the second object to it. In CPython, if there are no other references to the string object, yes it is deleted - other implementations may defer deletion to a later time. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
