On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> I don't know why the authors of your book chose to use the term
> 'variable'. It is generally frowned upon in Python, as it means
> something quite different in most languages.
Here's another example that will usually trip up Python n00bs who
expect names to work as variables in other languages do:
x = [1,2,3]
y = x
x[1] = 4
print x # [1, 4, 3]
print y # [1, 4, 3]
x = [1,2,3]
y = x
x = [1,4,3]
print x # [1, 4, 3]
print y # [1, 2, 3]
-- Ed Leafe
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