in 335100 20080222 123210 Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
In that case neither does any other OO language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
