passing by refference

[Daan Hoogland]

Thank you all for your mutual flaming,  in between the lines there where many
satisfying answers to my question. I did change my subsribtion to digest though.

On Tue, 13 May 2003, you wrote:
> is passing by reffence possible in python?
> 
> I'd like the following code to print 
> 1
> instead of
> 2
> 
> <file name="D.py">
> def spam(**ni):
>   ni["egg"] = 1;
> 
> bacon = 2
> spam(egg = bacon)
> print bacon
> </file>
> 
> the actual construct is going to return several newly created object, to give a
> reason why.
> 
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