"Bengt Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IOW, "...open the box and find the i'th item /in/ the box..." is not > really > finding the i'th item _itself_ "/in/" the box. It is finding one end of a > string > tied to some point /in/ the box, but the actual item/object is at the > other end > of the string, not /in/ the box, and many other strings may potentially > also > be leading to the same object, whether originating from anonymous > structural > binding points in other objects, or named binding points in > name-tag-containing > objects/namespaces.
The way I think of it is that Python's collective objects are like club rosters: one person (object) can be on many rosters. A container would be like a room, and a person could only be in one room at a time. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
