Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > I think pointer is even worse because of its connection with C and > hence cPython. What is wrong with object if that is the only thing > Python knows about?
Because the object is the *thing the arrow points at*. You don't have two objects when store the same object in two variables (names, list slots, whatever), but you do have two pointers. And they *are* pointers in cPython - so that "connection" is a feature, not a bug. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
