Re: Passing arguments to function - (The fundamentals are confusing me)

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: 
	In a more simplistic view, I'd reverse the phrasing... The name
"x" is assigned to the object "y" (implying it is no longer attached to
whatever used to have the name)

No, because that'd imply that the object 'y' somehow keeps track of the names assigned to it, which is only true from a refcount perspective -- and only on some Python implementations at that. The object is the property of the name, not vice versa.
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