On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > There are two fundamentally different kinds of values in Python: "small" > values and "big" values. A variable can only hold a small value. A list > element can only hold a small value. A dictionary entry can only hold a > small value. The same is true for an object member (aka field). > > So we have four kinds of (memory) slots: variables, list elements, > dictionary entries and fields. Any slot can only hold a small value. > > The small values include numbers, booleans (True or False) and > references. All other values are big, too big to fit in a slot. They > have to be stored in a "vault" big enough to hold them. This vault is > called the heap. Big values cannot be stored in slots directly; instead, > references to big values are used.
This is nonsense. Python the language makes no such distinction between "big" and "small" values. *All* objects in CPython are stored internally on the heap. Other implementations may use different memory management schemes. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
