On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:37:49 +0100, zaur <szp...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 30 авг, 15:49, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think they (Derek and zaur) expect integer objects to be mutable.
It's pretty common for people coming from "name is a location in
memory" languages to have this conception of integers as an
intermediate stage of learning Python's object system. Even once
they've understood "everything is an object" and "names are references
to objects" they won't have learned all the nuances of the system, and
might still (not unreasonably) think integer objects could be mutable.
However, it'd be nice if all these people didn't post here whining
about how surprising and unintuitive it is and instead just said, "ah,
integers are immutable, got it", quietly to themselves.
Carl Banks
Very expressive.
I use python many years. And many years I just took python int as they
are.
I am also not think about names as reference to objects and so on.
Then you are doomed to surprises such as this.
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