On 08/11/2007, Marc Tompkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, I did already (intellectually) understand this:
> A list is an array of pointers to objects, what you've done here is
> create a new name referencing an item in the list, then making that new
> name point to something different.
> Given that, however, I still don't entirely understand why the other
> examples I gave DO work. Seems it should be one or the other, no?
Could you post some code/results (or an interpreter session) showing
one of the other examples working?
If you did, for example,
tmpSegs = inString.split(self.SegTerm)
for seg in tmpSegs:
seg = 'bananas'
I would expect tmpSegs to be unchanged. If it is changed, then that
seems strange to me..
--
John.
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