On Thu, Jun 4, 2015, at 22:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > That's not a reference to the value. That's a string that describes the > object.
Well, of course. None of these things are strings. The normal human-readable representation of a reference is an arrow on a diagram, pointing from a box that represents the variable to a box that represents the object. But I can't exactly put that in a text-based email. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list