On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:12:56 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > A "variable" in > programming languages is composed of a name, a memory location, possibly > a type and a value. In C-like languages, where you put values in named > and typed "boxes", the memory location and type are attached to the > name. In Python both belong to the value.
But Python objects don't have names, so by your own definition, they aren't variables. Names are associated with namespaces, not objects. A name must have one and only one object bound to it at any one time; objects on the other hand can be bound to one name, or no name, or a thousand names. The object itself has no way of knowing what names it is bound to, if any. Or, to put it another way... Python doesn't have variables. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
