Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:29:47 -0700, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:Python has the advantage that a sizable fraction of its objects, especially the very common ones like numbers and strings, are immutable. Immutable objectsWe must have different ideas of "sizable" Numbers, strings, and tuples are immutable... Lists, dictionaries, and pretty much anything else (functions, class instances, etc.) are mutable in one way or another... I'd say the mutables are in the majority <G>
I think it depends on whether one counts classes or instances. Typical programs have a lot of numbers and strings.
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