Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Then it's a good reason we had this thread, so you could learn something > *crucial* to understanding Python and writing non-buggy code: name > binding versus variables which occupy fixed memory locations like in > some other languages. This has to be by far the most frequent area that > newcomer's trip up. But that's another story...
I, as a newcomer, don't have much trouble understanding the binding vs the assignment by themselves. What does somewhat confuse is dual role of the "=" operator, -- sometimes it means "bind" and other times it means "assign", right? For me it seems that the language would be less error-prone and easier to grok if these two operations had different names/syntax (thinking about lisp "let" vs "set"), though it seems to be too drastic change even for Python3000. -- Sergei. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
