Objects in Python

[Alexander Blinne]

On 23.08.2012 20:30, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:33:33 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>> x = 1;
>>
>> In C, this means: Assign the integer 1 to the variable x (possibly
>> with implicit type casting, eg to floating point).
>>
> 	Or, at an even lower level...
> 
> 	Convert the decimal literal "1" to binary (including type casting)
> to the predeclared type given to the variable "x", and store that binary
> value into the predetermined memory associated with "x".

Not really the way i would view it. The conversion to binary of the
string "1" is part of the parsers and compilers work in order to do what
the language reference says about the meaning of x=1;. The resulting
code would simply store the binary value of an integer 1 (which is
contained in the code as is, nothing has to be converted or typecasted)
into the location corresponding to the variable x. So in C x=1; really
means store integer 1 to the variable x.