> While Java's variable declarations bear a superficial (syntactical) > similarity to C, their semantics is in fact equivalent to the > object-reference semantics we know in Python.
I come from Z80A/GWBASIC/VB and a little C, I would describe a Python variable as a pointer - in that it contains the address of something. What that "something" is, is a little fuzzy. Right now I imagine it's to a kind of structure which has meta info about the object as well as it's actual address. How far off would that be? \d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list