Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > The big difference is that in "fixed location" languages, it makes > sense to talk about the address of a *variable*.
The address could be a symbol, too. The Python statement xyz = 3 places a number in the address "xyz". You can read the value from the address "xyz" with locals()["xyz"] Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list