George Sakkis wrote: > Posting a counter-example where the difference is clearly shown would > be more vastly useful than referring to a list of long obscure usenet > posts with practically no examples. C/C++ are not even mentioned in > that page. I am not claiming you are wrong, I just don't find > particularly this page particularly enlightening.
I don't find a posting like "It's call-by-reference, but in fact it's doesn't behave like call-by-reference" helpful. The text explains Python's calling convention on a CS level. Please trust me that the explanation on the site is right. It was written by somebody who designed and wrote parts of Python. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list