I think, strictly speaking, foo would be a "name" in python. >>> foo Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'foo' is not defined
On Saturday 23 April 2005 07:20 pm, so sayeth Richard Blackwood: > To All: > > Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write: > > foo = 5 > > then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily. If you guys can define for me > what a variable is and what qualifications you have to back you, I can > pass this along to, hopefully, convince him that foo is indeed a variable. > > Thanks all! > > Richard B. -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list