How to Teach Python "Variables"

[jkn]

On Nov 25, 10:36 pm, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
>
> In addition to the good answers you've had already, I highly recommend
> David Goodger's "Code like a Pythonista" page
> <URL:http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html>,
> which contains a very good "cardboard boxes versus paper tags" analogy
> of the topic you're asking about.
>

or even Ben's own version of this, which I liked:

<URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/
56e7d62bf66a435c/ab62283cde9e4c63#ab62283cde9e4c63>

    J^n