"Gregory Piñero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Ahh, so it's a mutable thing. That makes sense that I can't change a >mutable object and thus can't affect it outside of the function.
You of course meant immutable, but this is still confused. It is a name-binding versus object mutation thing. > Does that mean Python functions aren't always byref, > but are sometimes byval for nonmutables? No, neither. Python functions calls are always by name binding. See my first response. You are only about the 1000th or maybe 10000th person confused by trying to apply inapplicable concepts to Python. Terry J. Reedy
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