Passing by value instead of reference

[Michael Hudson]

"Jeff Massung" <jmassung at magpiesystems.com> writes:

> >>> z=5
> >>> id(z)
> 6532920
> >>> def test(x):
>             print id(x)
> >>> test(z)
> 6532920
> 
> Is there a way to pass the value of z and not the address? Thanks.

Then what would you expect your "test" function to do?

Cheers,
M.

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