"Jeff Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| That's the same behavior I would expect in C, on the grounds that C | What I found confusing at first was | that the same variable will either directly store or merely refer to an | object, depending on the type of the object: Since names and collection slots always refer to objects, I find the above confusing. Can you clarify what difference you percieve? tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list