Tom Anderson wrote: > In what sense are the names-bound-to-references-to-objects not variables? >
In the sense that a variable has various meta-informations (at least a type) while a Python name has no information. A Python name would be equivalent to a C void pointer, it can mean *any*thing and has no value/meaning by itself, only the object it references has. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
