wesley chun wrote: > that's great clarification... you are right on. memory references (as > in C) are different from object references in Python, and yes, it's > the object references that are passed and up to the object's > mutability on whether assignment to that object is possible.
As long as I'm nitpicking...well, I guess I don't know what you mean by assignment to an object. Assignment is to names, not objects. There is nothing you can do in a function to bind a new object to a name in the caller. (Well, maybe some deep hackery with stack frames but nothing you can do in normal code.) If the passed object is mutable you can change its value and the caller will see the new value, but it is still the same object. Wesley I have no doubt you understand this, I'm just trying to be careful with the language because people are listening... Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
