Antoon Pardon enlightened us with: > I would expect a result consistent with the fact that both times b.a > would refer to the same object.
"b.a" is just a name, not a pointer to a spot in memory. Getting the value associated with that name is something different from assigning a new value to that name. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list