Why is the interpreter is returning a 'reference'?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Feb 17, 2014 12:05 PM, "Nir" <nirchernia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> k = ['hi','boss']
> >>>
> >>> k
> ['hi', 'boss']
> >>> k= [s.upper for s in k
S.upper()
> >>> k
> [<built-in method upper of str object at 0x00000000021B2AF8>, <built-in
method upper of str object at 0x0000000002283F58>]
>
> Why doesn't the python interpreter just return
> ['HI, 'BOSS'] ?
>
> This isn't a big deal, but I am just curious as to why it does this.
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