[Python-ideas] Python Isn't Perfect: adding a 'gotchas' section to the tutorial

[Greg Ewing]

Masklinn wrote:

> Of course technically that copy could very well be performed
> "on write". This would significantly complexify the runtime as well.

It could also lead to a lot of gratuitous inefficiency
in programs, as people got into the habit of modifying
anything passed to them in the knowledge that it
wouldn't do any harm, but without considering the cost
of all the implicit copying that it caused.

-- 
Greg