[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just want an alias. Ideally, I don't want to deal with pointers or > special reference "types" etc. After all, this is not C++ :) > > I just want to be able to make a reference to any old thing in Python. > A list, an integer variable, a function etc. so that I, in complicated > cases, can make a shorthand. If "myRef" could somehow "point at" > something long an complicated like a[42]["pos"][-4], that might be > useful.
You can do shorthand = a[42]["pos"] ... print shorthand[-4] shorthand[0] = 42 # if a[42]["pos"] is mutable But the last indirection must always be given explicitly. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
