pythong referencing/aliasing

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1051284819.25791.python-list at python.org>,
Jeff Epler  <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote:
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>give you a clearer explanation.  I can only add one other piece of
>information: I rarely am hurt by the fact that Python doesn't have
>references of the type you're talking about.
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I'll make a positive assertion of this:  in C and
C++, stylish programmers frequently use references
to good effect.  Python rarely, very rarely, needs
to do the same.  It might be instructive to choose
a typical C++ reference idiom, and illustrate how
its typical use case is better served in Python be
a derived return, or dictionary construction, or ...
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