Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Chris, that is one of the best explanations for why "references equals pointers" is *not* a good explanation for Python's behaviour.
Many people here seem to have lost sight of the fact that the word "pointer" existed in the English language long before C, and even long before computers. If I draw two boxes on a blackboard with an arrow between them, I think it's perfectly reasonable to call that arrow a pointer. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
