Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Terry Reedy]

"Frode Vatvedt Fjeld" <frodef at cs.uit.no> wrote in message
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> So to get from the ID to the bytecode, you go through a dictionary?
> And the mapping from name to ID happens perhaps when the caller is
> bytecode-compiled?

No.  In Python, all names are associated with objects in namespaces.
Lookup is done as needed at the appropriate runtime.  Function objects
are 1st class and are no different from any others in this respect.
The same goes for slots in collection objects being associated with
member objects.

The free online tutorial as www.python.org explains Python basics like
this.

Terry J. Reedy