On 1/21/20, Jon Ribbens via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > Whether we call the link between 'foo' and (1, 2) a pointer or a > reference is almost entirely irrelevant, the difference is essentially > meaningless.
In programming terms, a "pointer" is always an address in memory, and, at least to me, the term is loaded with semantics from C, such as pointer types, pointer typecasting, and pointer arithmetic. Python has no direct analog to these concepts. References in Python are without type, and memory addresses have no direct role in the language. (CPython uses an object's memory address as its ID, but that's just an implementation detail.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
