Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > From [Ned Batchelder]'s blog:
> > Names are Python's variables: they refer to values, and > > those values can change (vary) over the course of your > > program. > > This is partially incorrect. If the value referred to by the name is > immutable, then it cannot change; perhaps you meant to say that which > object the name points to can vary over time? I agree. Names are not Python's variables. If anything in Python is a “variable” as generally understood, it is not a name. It is a *binding*, from a reference (a name, or some other reference like a list item) to a value. It is the binding which can change over the course of the program, so that is the variable. -- \ “Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from | `\ bad judgement.” —Frederick P. Brooks | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
