Python handles globals badly.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 12/09/2015 05:34, Random832 wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>> I think pointer is even worse because of its connection with C and
>> hence cPython.  What is wrong with object if that is the only thing
>> Python knows about?
>
> Because the object is the *thing the arrow points at*. You don't have
> two objects when store the same object in two variables (names, list
> slots, whatever), but you do have two pointers.
>
> And they *are* pointers in cPython - so that "connection" is a feature,
> not a bug.
>

How do I access these pointers?  Is there a builtin called pointer() 
that's analogous to id()?  I'll ask again, where do pointers come into 
the Jython and IronPython models?  How do I access their pointers, the 
same builtin?  The fact that the underlying implementation language has 
some terminology that it uses, has no bearing on the actual language 
being implemented.  This seems to me rather important, or have I missed 
something here?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence