What exactly is a python variable?

[Anton Mamaenko]

Just a couple of days ago I was asking myself a similar question, and found this blog article: https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/02/14/drastically-improve-your-python-understanding-pythons-execution-model/

Clarified a lot of things to me. 

, Anton

> On 17 Nov 2016, at 16:19, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 17/11/2016 12:20, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:37 pm, BartC wrote:
> 
>>> (I don't know how to disassemble code outside a function, not from
>>> inside the same program. Outside it might be: 'python -m dis file.py')
> 
>> In the most recent versions of Python, dis.dis() will also accept a string:
>> 
>> py> dis.dis('y = x + 1')
>>  1           0 LOAD_NAME                0 (x)
>>              3 LOAD_CONST               0 (1)
>>              6 BINARY_ADD
>>              7 STORE_NAME               1 (y)
>>             10 LOAD_CONST               1 (None)
>>             13 RETURN_VALUE
> 
> 
> Py2 gave me (for "y=x+1"):
> 
>          0 SETUP_EXCEPT    30781 (to 30784)
>          3 STORE_SLICE+3
>          4 <49>
> 
> Py3.4 works as you say but after that result I was disinclined to take it further!
> 
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