Re: Parse or Pass?

2007-09-04 Thread frenchy64
> In general, "parsing" is analyzing the grammatical structure of a > string. People sometimes talk loosely about "parsing the command line". > but I don't think that's normally applied to providing the actual > arguments (corresponding to the definition's "formal parameters") when a > function is

Parse or Pass?

2007-09-04 Thread frenchy64
I'm very confused...I want to describe passing variables to functions and I've seen these two words used in very similar contexts. Is there a difference between them? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list