On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:19:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This mutable/immutable object and name/variable is confusing.
It is a source of confusion to newbies, because it is a distinction that may not be intuitively obvious, and it is a programming model that isn't quite the same as many people are used to. One way that may help thinking about it is to imagine that Python names are "like" pointers. That may make people feel less threatened, since pointers in languages that use them often confuse beginners too. As for mutable/immutable, that's simple too. Some objects can change their value, and some objects can't. But the best way to get an intuitive feel for how Python operates is to start up an interactive session and just experiment! -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
