Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
Would it help to say that in case 1 the relevant statement acts on the variable while in case 2 it acts on the value of the variable?
I would try to avoid using words like "value" and "variable", because they don't have well-defined meanings in Python. The way I would put it is that a = b changes which object the name 'a' refers to, whereas a[i] = b does not. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
