anything like C++ references?

[Terry Reedy]

"Bengt Richter" <bokr at oz.net> wrote in message
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> Python's name bindings just aren't  your variable bindings,
> and Python's names aren't variable names. They're  aliases.

Exactly.  When Oswald shot JFK, JohnJKennedy, TheNNthUSPresident,
PT109.putative_author, and Daddy (in Caroline's namespace), being one
and the same person, all died.

Terry J. Reedy