On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:11:41 -0700, Jim Lee wrote: > Python is not like other languages.
Python is not like languages like C, Pascal, Algol, Fortran, D, Java (unboxed native values only) and those like that. However, Python *is* like other languages like Javascript, Ruby, Java (objects only), PHP, and others. > For one thing, there are no > "variables" in Python (in the way you think of them). Indeed -- there are no variables in Python, if you think of a variable as meaning a virtual box at a fixed memory address, containing a value, and associated with a type, like in C or Pascal. > There are only > objects and names. Names can be thought of like void pointers in C, for > example. They don't have a "type" themselves - they only refer to > objects, and the type of object they refer to can change at will. Very true. > Also, there are no integers in Python. Scalar values are actually > objects. The number 35 is not an integer, it is an object that has an > integer type. I would put it another way. Python certainly has integers, but there are no integers in C, there are only fixed-width collections of one or more bytes. They don't have any integer methods, or methods at all. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
