On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Varuna Seneviratna <
varunasenevira...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But what is meant by "A *namespace* is a mapping from names to objects"
>
Steven touched on this, but I'd like to emphasize: in Python, EVERYTHING is
an object - variables, functions, integers, strings, you
On 09/12/13 04:46, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
do not understand what is meant by "A /namespace/ is a mapping from
names to objects". How I understand to be a namespace is a particular
space within which a particular name is unique.
That's correct.
But a name on its own can refer to anything.
Bu
On 12/09/2013 05:46 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
Let’s begin with some definitions.
A *namespace* is a mapping from names to objects. Most namespaces are
currently implemented as Python dictionaries, but that’s normally not
noticeable in any way (except for performance), and it may change in t
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 10:16:30AM +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> I do not understand what is meant by "A *namespace* is a mapping from names
> to objects". How I understand to be a namespace is a particular space
> within which a particular name is unique.For a example within the space set
>
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Varuna Seneviratna
wrote:
>> Let’s begin with some definitions.
>>
>> A namespace is a mapping from names to objects. Most namespaces are
>> currently implemented as Python dictionaries, but that’s normally not
>> noticeable in any way (except for performance), and
>
> Let’s begin with some definitions.
>
> A *namespace* is a mapping from names to objects. Most namespaces are
> currently implemented as Python dictionaries, but that’s normally not
> noticeable in any way (except for performance), and it may change in the
> future. Examples of namespaces are: t
