Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>: > On 05/08/2014 05:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >> For those people, talking about variables as a container to hold a >> value is the right level of abstraction. > > [...] > > Teaching someone that Python variables are containers is a massive fail.
But that's what they are. We are really debating on the suitability of a metaphor. The palm of my hand is a "container" for a horse. You can ask, Which horse are you holding? when it's only the reins I'm holding. Or maybe we can think of Python's data model as a city with structures of different sizes and shapes. A variable is a container that holds the address of a structure... Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
