On 19/11/2018 14:08, Iwo Herka wrote:
I've been looking for something in the documentation (https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/datamodel.html) recently and I've noticed something weird. Documentation states that every object has a value, but doesn’t provide any definition whatsoever of what the value is. Now, I'm sure that every reasonably fluent Python programmer has an intuitive understanding of the term, nonetheless, I would expect the documentation defines it somehow (not necessarily in a formal fashion), especially considering that "the value of an object" is used to explain other concepts, such as mutability:
I don't think it's weird at all. "Value" is a complex concept, just ask a philosopher next time you have a few weeks free :-) You even demonstrated as much, when you noted that ordering is part of the value of a tuple. Attempting to define value here would be at best a massive distraction from the concepts the documentation is trying to get across.
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