Finding the instance reference of an object

[greg]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Which definition of call-by-value? Certainly not the one that most people 
> are familiar with, where c-b-v implies that calling a function with a 
> large array will copy the entire array.

But that's only true in languages where *assigning* a large
array will also copy the entire array. This does not happen
in Python, therefore there is no reason to suppose that it
will happen when passed as a parameter.

Before you can understand parameter passing, whether by-value
or by-reference, you first have to understand how assignment
works *in the language concerned*, not some other language
you happen to know previously.

-- 
Greg