Paddy wrote: > > So, > An assignment statement may assign an object to a name, in which case > the name is 'tagged' as being local, > An assignment statement may mutate a mutable object already bound to a > name, in which case the assignment will not 'tag' the name as being > local. > > I guess Bruno, you mean irrelevant as in 'although only mutable objects > can have their state modified; if n has a mutable value but the > assignment statement changed the object referred to by n, then the name > would be tagged as local'? > > - Peace, Paddy.
No, that last paragraph still does not convey what I meant. ... irrelevant as in 'although only mutable objects can have their state modified; if n has a mutable value but the assignment statement changed n to refer to another object, then the name would be tagged as local'? Oh bosh, can anyone come at it from a different tack? Ta. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
