Finding the instance reference of an object

greg greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 31 22:11:02 EDT 2008


Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Consequently people who know these other 
> languages come along and ask "So is Python call by value or call by 
> reference?".

And if you don't know *exactly* what *they* understand by those
terms, you can't answer that directly without running the
risk of confusing them in some way. So instead, you just
tell them how it works, and leave them to decide for themselves
what name they want to give it.

-- 
Greg



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