On 12 Jul, 07:51, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach +use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're talking about defining a 'swap' routine that works on variables. I did not miss the point. One cannot make a swap function that rebinds its arguments in the calling stack frame. But a swap function can swap values, given that the type is not immutable: def swap(a,b): a[0],b[0] = b[0],a[0] >>> a,b = [1],[2] >>> swap(a,b) >>> print a,b [2] [1] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
