Addressing the last element of a list

[Peter Otten]

Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:

> Sure, I didn't want to claim that the assignment a=anything can be plainly
> overloaded. 

I interpreted your previous post as such a claim. No disagreement here then.

> Would you please concentrate on - what I underlined - the sense of "C"
> aliasing, where you can make a pointer to point to anything, say, the
> 176th byte of a function code? 

I've never heard the expression "aliasing" for that, sorry.

> This is impossible in Python.

Of course, but I don't think this is what the OP wanted. 

Peter