On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> References aren't themselves objects. Names, attributes, etc, etc, >> etc, all refer to objects. Is it clearer to use the verb "refer" >> rather than the noun "reference"? >> >> ChrisA > > I know functions are objects, but what about statements? Is the body of > a for loop an object? It is in some languages.
And *that* is an extremely fair question. The best explanation I can come up with is somewhat circular: If it can be named in the code, it's an object. What that really means is that every object is first-class (contrast, for instance, C's arrays and functions), but it doesn't answer the actual question of what's an object and what's not. But my advice would be to try things in the interactive interpreter. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
