Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> wrote: >What exactly are you trying to do?
I think, he wants to kind of dereference the list element. So that he can write >>> a += 1 instead of >>> long_name_of_a_list_which_contains_data[mnemonic_pointer_name] += 1 Regards, Günther -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list