passing by refference

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu May 15 17:12:52 EDT 2003


In article <87el30gcbx.fsf at charter.net>,
Doug Quale  <quale1 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>In cbv, the parameters are evaluated and their r-values are passed to
>the function.  That's all there is to it.

Then by that definition, Python is not call-by-value.  That's all there
is to it.
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