Are routine objects guaranteed mutable & with dictionary?

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Fri Dec 4 11:23:09 EST 2009


"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps at start.no> wrote:

> The question is what guarantees or absence thereof the language
> specification, PEPs, intentions, whatever gives/has.

See the documentation: http://docs.python.org/3.1/reference/datamodel.html
> 
> 
>> BTW, it's a function, not a "routine"
> 
> Wikipedia is your friend, <url:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine>. 
> 
Yes, but if you use the same terminology as everyone else you'll look under  
'User-defined functions' on the page I referenced above. Looking under 
'routine' or 'subroutine' won't get you very far.



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