On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:06:19 -0700, Jon Forrest wrote: > I wasn't thinking so much about the objects produced by an operation on > a sequence as I was about when the sequence is created. A trivial > sequence is > > "abc" > > As I understand it, this is one object, not three. The original excerpt > implies the later.
Actually it implies *four* objects, not three. A better example would be a tuple: ("a", "b", "c") which consists of the three items (each a single character string) plus the tuple object itself, the container holding them. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list