On Sunday, December 22, 2013 4:54:46 PM UTC-6, dec...@msn.com wrote: > basically what I wanna do is this : > x = 4 > > y = 7 > def switch (z,w): > ***this will switch z to w and vice verca*** > c= z > z=w > w=c > print 'Now x =', w, 'and y = ' , z > return w > x = switch(x,y)
If your intent is to swap the values of two variables (which is really rebinding the names only) then why do you need a function at all when you could explicitly swap the values yourself? What gain would a function give you -- even if you could do it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
