variable in Python

[Salvatore]

Steven Taschuk wrote:
> Quoth Dan Bishop:
>   [...]
> 
>>The latter: All variables in Python are pointers in disguise.
> 
>   [...example...]
> 
>>Note that I used a list instead of an int.  With ints, the distinction
>>between value and reference semantics doesn't matter as much because
>>ints are immutable.
> 
> 
> And this is an extremely important point: C programmers who are
> familiar with pointer semantics would expect that after
>     a = 3
>     b = a
>     a = 4
> we would find b == 4.  This is why, as Aahz pointed out, thinking
> of Python variables as pointers can lead one astray, and why you
> often see Python variables described as simply "names for
> objects", and = as not a value-copying operation (as it is in C)
> but a name-binding operation.
> 

Thanks Steven