On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 13:51, Emile van Sebille wrote: > Actually, boxes with integers in them isn't the appropriate analogy. > Consider the naming of cats. My cat is known to me as Paddy. My next > door neighbor sometimes feeds her and is known to her as Stripes. The > cat also is known as kitty to my youngest daughter. The cat has no idea > what its name is, it just is and eats. So three labels, one object. > Putting the object in three boxes isn't right
The point is that with immutable objects no-one cares if they are three objects with the same value, or three references to the same object. Your cat is not an integer. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
