Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:19:29 -0800, bonono wrote: > > > > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> I'll tell you what I say: Python passes objects to functions or > >> assignments. > >> > > Which in C sense, is a reference(or pointer) to some opaque "table" > > maintain by the system, identified by id(). > > And that C sense is precisely why people try using C idioms in Python and > then are surprised that they don't behave as they would in C. > > So how about we all agree to stop implying that Python behaves like C, and > try to teach people that Python behaves like Python? > No one implies Python behaves like C but just trying to explain as close as possible to people speaking that language.
"passed by object" can just as easilly be interpreted as "the function received a seperate copy", with the caller's copy untouched. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
