Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science) >>> >>> Go ahead, start an edit war at that page over its use of "variable". :) >>> Right there it talks about copying values into variables. So if Python >>> has no variables, then either that article is inappropriate, or Python >>> has no assignment either. >> >> Python assignment doesn't copy values. > > So either the article is wrong, or Python doesn't have assignment. > Which is it?
You can understand copying more liberally: assignment -- 0-level copy shallow copy -- 1-level copy deep copy -- infinite-level copy Real programs occasionally need 2-level or n-level copies. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
