On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:12:27 +0100, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:04 +0100, Michał Bentkowski wrote: >> Why does python create a reference here, not just copy the variable? > > Python, like most other oo languages, will always make references for =, > unless you work on native types (numbers and strings).
*Including* numbers and strings. I don't know what you mean "native types". If you mean that numbers and strings are low-level bytes like you get in C, then you are mistaken, because EVERYTHING in Python is an object, including numbers and strings. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
