In article <mailman.7074.1392591962.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Because everything in Python is an object, and objects always are > > > handled by their references. > > > > <beginner_thought> So, we have objects... and we have > > references to objects... but everything is an object... > > so does that mean references are objects too? > > </beginner_thought> > > My response: No, because references are not things :-) > > I've never known a programming beginner to express such a question. Have > you? You make light of Gregory's point, but he's right. That's exactly the kind of thing a beginner would get confused about. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
