Counterintuitive Python behavior

[Michael Hudson]

<brueckd at tbye.com> writes:

> 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! 

Thanks!

> The next time a co-worker asks a
> assignment/binding/references question I'm going to refer them to this
> message.

I was hoping more people than the OP would find it useful.  I'll
probably knock up a version for my web pages (when the starship
reappears...).

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming,
  conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost
  hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better
  system.                                            -- Linus Torvalds