Terry Reedy wrote: > "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?
a += b Whether a refers to the same object before and after that statement depends on what type of object it referred to before the statement. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
