What is a function parameter =[] for?
BartC
bc at freeuk.com
Thu Nov 19 13:50:15 EST 2015
On 19/11/2015 18:26, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 19/11/2015 18:19, BartC wrote:
>>>> if you write A=B then something of B needs to have been copied into
>>>> A, even if it's just the reference that B contains. Otherwise it
>>>> would be
>>>> difficult to get A to refer to the same object as B.
>>>
>>> Please, PLEASE, go and read/watch Ned's PyCon talk (the one I linked
>>> you to earlier). Don't post another word on this subject until you
>>> comprehend what he is saying.
>
>> But what is it about my remarks above that isn't right?
>
> To summarize, it once again shows that you haven't got the faintest idea
> what you're talking about.
But you're not going to tell me what it is I got wrong!
I said that Python's "=" does a very shallow copy. And I stated that in
A=B, something of B must be copied into A.
I (and probably others) would like to know why none of that is correct.
But I suspect I'm not wrong.
--
Bartc
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