Counterintuitive Python behavior
brueckd at tbye.com
brueckd at tbye.com
Wed Apr 17 10:55:57 EDT 2002
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Michael Hudson wrote:
> It's you :) As I can't read my email at the moment[1], I have no
> better way of wasting my time to hand than drawing you some ascii art.
[snip]
This is a great explanation! The next time a co-worker asks a
assignment/binding/references question I'm going to refer them to this
message. Thanks for writing this!
[snip]
> +---+
> ,------. +-------+ ,->| 1 |
> | dict |------>|+-----+| +-----+ | +---+
> `------' || "a" |+------------>| [0]-+-'
> |+-----+| | [1]-+-.
> |+-----+| +-----+ | +---+
> || "b" |+-----. /\ `->| 3 |
> |+-----+| | ,----' +---+
> +-------+ | |
> `----+-----.
> ,------. +-----+ | \/
> | list |------>| [0]-+------------' +-----+ +---+
> `------' | [1]-+--------------->| [0]-+-->| 2 |
> +-----+ +-----+ +---+
(sorry for reposting this, but it was too cool to snip)
-Dave
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