On Thursday 17 November 2016 16:40, Veek M wrote: > In C: > int x = 10; > results in storage being allocated and type and location are fixed for > the life of the program. > > In Python, > x = 10 > > causes an object '10' to be created but how exactly is 'x' handled? > Symbol Table lookup at compile time?
No. Symbol table lookup at run time. For functions, you can access a copy of the symbol table with: locals() You can access the actual global symbol table (not a copy) with: globals() Every module has its own independent global symbol table. -- Steven 299792.458 km/s — not just a good idea, it’s the law! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
