passing by refference

[Peter Maas]

Daan Hoogland wrote
> is passing by reffence possible in python?

No, not directly. You can embed values in a container
(list, dictionary, object) and use the container as
argument. List example:

def spam(aList):
     aList[0]=4

eggs = [1 2 3]
spam(eggs)
print eggs # prints [4 2 3]

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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