On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:47:38 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > [0] Note that in almost all cases, when referring to a tag, Python > implicitly operates on the object attached to it. One case (the only > one?) where it doesn't is the "del" statement.
Name-binding: x = 1 operates on the name "x", not the object. The object 1 does not know it has been bound to anything -- that's one weakness of the "tag" model, because it implies that objects know what tags they have attached. They don't. Imports: import x also operates on the name x and not the object. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
