On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT), sohcahto...@gmail.com declaimed > the following: > >> >>People actually argue that Python passes by value? This is easily proven >>wrong by passing a mutable object to a function and changing it within the >>function. > > Which only proves you passed a mutable object... Mutating the object > means you've performed some operation that "goes inside the box". > > Try assigning a new object to it rather than mutating it... IE; don't > go inside the box, but try to change the box itself. Doesn't carry out -- > which is the traditional definition of pass-by-reference: assignment > changes the passed-in-object.
So you've proven that Python doesn't pass by value, and that Python doesn't pass by reference. I'm still waiting for "pass-by-quantum-entanglement" to be a viable option. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
