Passing arguments to function - (The fundamentals are confusing me)

[Christopher Subich]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	In a more simplistic view, I'd reverse the phrasing... The name
> "x" is assigned to the object "y" (implying it is no longer attached to
> whatever used to have the name)

No, because that'd imply that the object 'y' somehow keeps track of the 
names assigned to it, which is only true from a refcount perspective -- 
and only on some Python implementations at that.  The object is the 
property of the name, not vice versa.