A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 04:15 am, Stephan Houben wrote:

> Needless to say, according to the definition in Plotkin's paper, Python
> is "call-by-value".

According to Plotkin's definition, when you pass a value like a 100MB string:

"This is a long string of text..."  # continues on for millions more characters

does the interpreter make a copy of the 100MB string?

If not, then it isn't pass (call) by value.


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