Richard Blackwood wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > > Richard Blackwood wrote: > > > >> Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a constant > >> and necessarily not a variable. If I had written foo = raw_input(), > >> he would say that foo is a variable. > > > > > > Then what does he say if you write: > > > > foo = 5 > > foo = 6 ... > He says that foo is a constant. At first it was a constant which equaled > 5, then it was a constant that equaled 6.
He must have a very unusual definition of "constant". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list