On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 4:37:58 AM UTC+12, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I see Python as doing the exact same thing with variables as C.
>
> What is different is that in Python, every expression evaluates to a
> pointer. Thus, you can only assign pointers to variables.
Yup. I think some people are getting confused over assignment to simple
variables as opposed to more complex expressions on the LHS of assignments in
Python. For example, given
a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
compare the different effects of
b = a
b = a[:]
b[:] = a # assuming b already has an appropriate initial value
not to mention other possibilities...
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