passing by refference

[Aahz]

In article <87of2671rm.fsf at charter.net>,
Doug Quale  <quale1 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>Python is call-by-value.  The values are objects, but the argument
>passing mechanism doesn't say anything about what values are in the
>language.

No, the values are not objects.  To the extent that it's call-by-value,
the values are references.  That's why so many of us object to using the
phrase call-by-value, because people keep getting the process wrong.
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few automatic coercions, etc etc.  But that's one of the things I like
about it."  --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93