Return value of an assignment statement?
steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au
Fri Feb 22 13:32:10 CET 2008
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:12:56 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> A "variable" in
> programming languages is composed of a name, a memory location, possibly
> a type and a value. In C-like languages, where you put values in named
> and typed "boxes", the memory location and type are attached to the
> name. In Python both belong to the value.
But Python objects don't have names, so by your own definition, they
aren't variables. Names are associated with namespaces, not objects. A
name must have one and only one object bound to it at any one time;
objects on the other hand can be bound to one name, or no name, or a
thousand names. The object itself has no way of knowing what names it is
bound to, if any.
Or, to put it another way... Python doesn't have variables.
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