On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:53:08 -0400, Ross wrote:
> Forgive my newbieness - I want to refer to some variables and indirectly
> alter them. Not sure if this is as easy in Python as it is in C.
>
> Say I have three vars: oats, corn, barley
>
> I add them to a list: myList[{oats}, {peas}, {barley}
Chris Rebert a écrit :
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forgive my newbieness - I want to refer to some variables and indirectly
alter them. Not sure if this is as easy in Python as it is in C.
Say I have three vars: oats, corn, barley
I add them to a list: myL
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forgive my newbieness - I want to refer to some variables and indirectly
> alter them. Not sure if this is as easy in Python as it is in C.
>
> Say I have three vars: oats, corn, barley
>
> I add them to a list: myList[{oats}, {pea
On 2008-10-01, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forgive my newbieness - I want to refer to some variables and
> indirectly alter them. Not sure if this is as easy in Python
> as it is in C.
Python doesn't have variables. It has names bound to objects.
When you do an assignment, that binds (or
Ross wrote:
> >>> myList[1]= myList[1]+1
The problem is this makes myList[1] point to a new integer, and not the one
that peas points to.
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