On Sun, Jun 5, 2016, at 23:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Certainly not. x = y = 999 is required to bind the same object to x and > y.
My statement was that if two variables can be bound to the same object, then variables *cannot* contain objects. The object has to exist somewhere, and this requirement means that the variables cannot be where the objects live. > If your variable x were a reference, then we would expect type(x) to > return > something like "Reference", but it doesn't, it returns int. No we would not. You are once again inferring meaning that people's statements don't actually carry. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
