unexpected behavior: did i create a pointer?

[Wildemar Wildenburger]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:19:12 -0700, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> Since it's only a matter of time before someone brings up the "post-It" 
>> analogy, let me cavil in advance about it. The thing I don't like about 
>> that particular pedagogic mechanism is that it always "attaches" the 
>> names to the objects.
>>
> 	Fine... then visual the namespace as a box... Inside the box are the
> "post-it notes" -- attached to the ends of strings that then run to the
> "physical object" at the other end.

This is getting clearer by the minute. ;)

/W