On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > Op 29-06-13 16:02, Michael Torrie schreef: > >> >> The real problem here is that you don't understand how python variables >> work. And in fact, python does not have variables. It has names that >> bind to objects. > > > I don't understand why members of this list keep saying this. Sure the > variables in python behave differently than those in C and algol But they > behave similarly as those in smalltalk and lisp and I haven't seen > anyone claim that smalltalk and lisp don't have variables.
Perhaps because that is the terminology used by the language documentation: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/executionmodel.html#naming-and-binding -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list