[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I took a variable to mean a container for diffirent kinds of > information either strings or integers etc, as i am mainly a > asp, php, asp.net developer.
in python, a variable is a name that refers to a specific object. it's the object that has a type and a value, not the variable. this article might be somewhat helpful: http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list