On 2/17/2015 4:21 PM, candide wrote:
Official Python documentation very frequently invokes a mysterious *container* data structure. The PLR manual explains :
I use 'collection' rather than 'container'.
-------------------------- Some objects contain references to other objects; these are called containers. --------------------------
A mathematical set has 'members', like a club. Objects, like people, can be members of 0 to many clubs. Containing 'references', and the nature of said references is a computer implementation issue. There are no 'references' in math.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
