Michael Torrie at 2016/11/16 11:15:11AM wrote: > ... The globals object is a dictionary and is itself > mutable. But when we assign a new object to a particular dictionary > key, it tosses out the old reference and makes the key now refer to the > new object. It does not do anything to the old object itself.
The last question: Is it possible, in the current Python version, to re-bind a global name in module "deen" after it was imported "from deen import *"? > > That's one problem I was concerned. Human beings are very deeply > > binding on words (names?). We think in words, talk in words, > > communicate in words. Actually we are living in words. I really don't > > like that when I said "John is a boy" and was told "No, John is a dog > > now":-) > > Not quite sure where you're going with that. I would think the idea of > labels on objects would be fairly natural. I could stick a label that > says "chair" on a chair, and then later move that label to the couch. > Same label, different object. Whether the label makes sense is up to you. I mean it might be better to have two labels to label chair and couch separately, instead of one:-) --Jach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
