Chris Angelico wrote:
Because everything in Python is an object, and objects always are handled by their references.
<beginner_thought> So, we have objects... and we have references to objects... but everything is an object... so does that mean references are objects too? </beginner_thought> This is the kind of trouble you get into when you make a statement of the form "everything is an X"[1]. When we say "everything is an object", we don't literally mean everything, only... well, those things that *are* objects. Which doesn't really help the beginner much. [1] Mathematicians tried this. "Everything is a set!" Yeah, right... -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
