Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > Five years ago, the President Of the United States of America, or POTUS > for short, referred to Barrack Obama. Today, it refers to Donald Trump. > This didn't happen by mutating a single person (an object) from a > youngish black-skinned man to an oldish orange-skinned man. It happened > by re-assigning the name from Obama to Trump.
This is a good analogy. > Likewise when you re-assign a variable name from one value (an object) to > another, the original object doesn't change. You just make the name refer > to a different object, while the first goes on its merry way (probably to > be collected by the garbage collector and the memory reclaimed). Hopefully I am not the only one who wondered how closely the analogy to POTUS extends into this description. -- \ “I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without | `\ hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd | _o__) never expect it.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
