Re: Q about assignment and references

2010-04-07 Thread jdbosmaus
Thanks to all for the informative answers. You made me realize this is a wxPython issue. I have to say, wxPython seems useful, and I'm glad it is available - but it doesn't have the gentlest of learning curves. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Q about assignment and references

2010-04-06 Thread jdbosmaus
Pretty new to Python, but I thought I understood what is meant by "an assignment is a reference." Until I tried to understand this. Here is a (fragment of an) event handler for a group of three wxPython toggle buttons. The idea is to change the appearance of the label of the button that was press