On 02/17/2015 06:14 PM, candide wrote: > Le mercredi 18 février 2015 01:50:16 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : > >> >> So, what's a container? It's a thing that you put other objects into. > > I agree with this approach. The important point to consider here is the last > word in your definition : "into".
You are getting bogged down with implementation details; not even dict, list, nor tuple actually have the contained objects inside their memory space. What they have is a record of what objects they "contain", and methods to work with those objects. Whether a "contained" object exists before it is accessed is irrelevant, is an implementation detail, and is a level of optimization. -- ~Ethan~
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