On 06/29/2013 01:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Python's basic data types are not necessarily immutable. Lists and dicts > are not immutable. Being a high-level language, the idea of "primitives" > like int, double, float, etc from C doesn't really apply. A Python dict > is not made up from Python ints. Both int and dict are equally "basic".
Indeed. Sorry for not being more clear. I was referring primarily to numeric objects and strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list