Re: scared about refrences...

From: Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:23:03 -0300

At Monday 30/10/2006 20:37, Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:

In Python all the primitives are copied and all other entities are
references.

What do you mean?
primitives==builtin classes?
entities==objects?
In Python, objects are never automatically copied, either builtin or user-defined. Even 123 is an object. Names provide references to objects.
Perhaps you were thinking of *another* language.

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