Passing by reference

Sion Arrowsmith siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Dec 21 07:32:56 EST 2007


Michael Sparks  <ms at cerenity.org> wrote:
>def bar():
>    global x
>    x[0] += " another"
>    print id(x[0])

... and for bonus marks, explain why the "global x" in this function
is not required.

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