passing by refference

[Christopher A. Craig]

Joshua Marshall <joshway_without_spam at myway.com> writes:

> See
> 
>   http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?call-by-value
> 
> What you describe is call-by-value.  There is an implicit copy of the
> arguments passed to a function, though not a deep-copy.  The values
> that are being copied are often references.

If you look at
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?call-by-value

You will see that it also describes Python's calling strategy.  Python
always passes the address of an argument variable rather than the
contents of said variable.  That assignment will overwrite that
address is not related to the passing strategy.

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Christopher A. Craig <list-python at ccraig.org>
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