Explaining names vs variables in Python

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/03/2016 17:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 01:11 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> What is missing is the rules that are obeyed by the "is" operator.
>
> I think what is actually missing is some common bloody sense. The Python
> docs are written in English, and don't define *hundreds*, possible
> *thousands* of words because they are using their normal English meaning.
>
> The docs for `is` say:
>
> 6.10.3. Identity comparisons
>
> The operators is and is not test for object identity: x is y is true if and
> only if x and y are the same object. x is not y yields the inverse truth
> value.
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#is-not
>
> In this case, "same object" carries the normal English meaning of "same" and
> the normal computer science meaning of "object" in the sense of "Object
> Oriented Programming". There's no mystery here, no circular definition.
>

Are we discussing UK (highly generalised), Geordie, Glaswegian, US, 
Canadian, South African, Australian, New Zealand, or some other form of 
English?

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

Mark Lawrence