Re: References, and avoiding use of ???variable??? (was: Can global variable be passed into Python function?)

2014-02-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2014-02-28, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Mark H. Harris harrismh...@gmail.com writes: So, yeah, thinking about variables is just not going away. Right. I would like, ideally, for the Python documentation to avoid mentioning that term entirely; and I would hope for that to

References, and avoiding use of “variable” (was: Can global variable be passed into Python function?)

2014-02-27 Thread Ben Finney
Mark H. Harris harrismh...@gmail.com writes: So, yeah, thinking about variables is just not going away. Right. I would like, ideally, for the Python documentation to avoid mentioning that term entirely; and I would hope for that to promote a better understanding of Python's data model. The