Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer"

[Akira Li]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:17 am, Akira Li wrote:
>
>> I don't see why the model that can't describe range(1) in Python 3
>> pretends to be complete.
>
>
> Please explain.
>
> range(1) returns a range instance. What is hard about that?

Look at the last example:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/782626/focus=782704