Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself?

[vasudevram]

On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 6:38:28 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:59 PM, vasudevram <vasudevram at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Re. statement of fact vs. hypotheses. While I'm not sure of your exact meaning in that paragraph, I understand the concept, and yes, I was not clear enough in phrasing that part. It should have read like something along these lines:
> >
> > Observations -> One or more hypotheses -> deductions -> one or more alternative conclusions.
> 
> I just took a glance at your blog post, and it's reasonably clear now.
> (Though I tend to try to avoid making substantive edits to blog posts
> once they've been published and read; a codicil, or at very least an
> italicized comment saying "(Edit: Actually, blah blah blah.)", is
> clearer. Of course, trivial edits like typos can be corrected - nobody
> would be bothered by those unexpectedly changing.) Posts to the
> newsgroup/mailing list basically can't be edited, so the normal way to
> acknowledge an error or correction is simply a follow-up post.
> 
> ChrisA

Good points, thanks.