Can global variable be passed into Python function?

[j.e.haque at gmail.com]

On Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:01:25 AM UTC-6, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
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> > That's the exact line of thinking that leads to problems. You are not
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> > placing a number at the address "xyz", you are pointing the name "xyz"
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> > to the number 3. That number still exists elsewhere.
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> And?
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> In C, I can say:
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>    Number *o = malloc(sizeof *o);
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>    o->value = 3;
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> Your statement is valid: the number 3 resides elsewhere than the
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> variable o.

typedef struct {
  int value;
} Number;

  Number *o;
  o = malloc(sizeof(*o));
  o->value=3;
  printf("o<%p>, o->value<%p>\n", o, &o->value);

o<0x9fe5008>, o->value<0x9fe5008>

Is the compiler borked?