On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Sorry, that was my bad in the terminology. But where do you get that >> all Python expressions evaluate to pointers? > > What do they evaluate to if not pointers? Anton's "identities" would > work, too. "Address" would do, as well. I have previously proposed the > term "leash." Call it "link" or "handle" or "arrow" if you want to. > > The term used isn't important. What's important is to understand that > each expression and subexpression produces and operates on pointers.
They evaluate to objects. Not to pointers to objects. Not to references to objects. To objects. Expressions evaluate to actual objects, and when you assign "name = value", you bind the name to the object that value evaluates to. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
