Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:06:53 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>>Now, in Python variables are bound to types when used, right? >> >>Python doesn't have variables. >> >>Python has objects of various types. You can bind 0 or more >>names an object. > > I frequently use "variable" as a synonym for "name" when talking about > Python code. Do people think I am wrong to do so?
It depends on context and audience. If you're talking about Python code with other relatively experienced Pythonistas, no I don't think it's wrong. When you're talking about Python versus other languages where "variable" corresponds with "a possibly typed memory location", or you're talking with someone who is coming from such a language, then it's probably best to talk about names and objects. Such pedantry is useful in the latter cases but not so much in the former. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
