Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > Chris Angelico wrote: > > Because everything in Python is an object, and objects always are > > handled by their references. > > <beginner_thought> So, we have objects... and we have > references to objects... but everything is an object... > so does that mean references are objects too? > </beginner_thought>
My response: No, because references are not things :-) I've never known a programming beginner to express such a question. Have you? Were they beginners at programming, or experienced programmers who were coming to Python with the data models of other languages already in their head? -- \ “Computer perspective on Moore's Law: Human effort becomes | `\ twice as expensive roughly every two years.” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
