In article <503a2804$0$6574$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> The mapping of name:address is part of the *compilation* process -- >>> the compiler knows that variable 'x' corresponds to location >>> 12345678 Just to pick a nit, the compiler probably doesn't know that, but the linker does (or maybe even the run-time loader). However, we can think of all of those as just part of the compilation tool chain, and then we're good. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
