James Stroud wrote:
> Bart Willems wrote:
>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
[...]
>> Lists behave as described above, integers and floats don't.
>>
>> By the way, a classic language like C has features like this too;
>> they're called pointers.
>
> I think that after a += 1, a memory location with a 6
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:03:03 -0400, Bart Willems wrote:
> I can try this in interactive mode:
> >>> a = 5
> >>> b = a
> >>> a += 1
> >>> print b
> 5
>
> So, if /a/ and /b/ where pointing to the *same* "5" in memory, then I
> would expect b to be increased, just as a.
This is what you are i
On Saturday 14 April 2007, James Stroud wrote:
> I think that after a += 1, a memory location with a 6 is created and now
> a points to that because += has assignment buried in it.
Bingo.
a+=1 will (basically) translate to either "a=a.__iadd__(1)"
or "a=a.__add__(1)" depending on whether __ia
Bart Willems wrote:
> I can try this in interactive mode:
> >>> a = 5
> >>> b = a
> >>> a += 1
> >>> print b
> 5
>
> So, if /a/ and /b/ where pointing to the *same* "5" in memory,
They do:
>>> a = 5
>>> b = a
>>> a is b
True
>>> a += 1
>>> a is b
False
... but not after a is rebound to a n
Bart Willems wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2007 06:35:34 -0700, "jamadagni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed
>> the following in comp.lang.python:
>> In Python, the "variable" NAME does NOT define storage; unlike most
>> other classical languages where the "variable name" is a sto
