Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>:
> But you still find a few people here and there who have been exposed
> to Java foolishness, and will argue that Python is "pass by value,
> where the value is an implementation dependent reference to the thing
> that you thought was the value".
Why fight terminology? Definitions can't be proved right or wrong.
Anyway, I would say Python definitely is in the classic pass-by-value
camp. Here's a simple test:
def f(x):
x = 3
y = 1
f(y)
print(y)
If it prints 1, it's pass by value. If it prints 3, it's pass by
reference.
Marko
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