On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >> Here. Ned Batchelder explains it better than I can. > > See, those diagrams are perfect (well, almost, I think the names should > have square boxes too). They're arrows. They *point* at > things. *Pointers*. > > The boxes are variables. The circles represent special boxes > (implemented in C or Java or whatever) that hold things other than > pointers and therefore can't be used as Python variables.
Okay, okay, you've won. They're pointers. Now, try to do anything with them. They *instantly* devolve to their referent objects, which means you cannot do anything with the pointer at all. Congratulations, pointers do not exist. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
