Pointers
Jason Stokes
jstok at bluedog.apana.org.au
Wed Mar 15 22:34:24 EST 2000
Curtis Jensen wrote in message <38D00DCE.9740380F at be-research.ucsd.edu>...
>I haven't found anything about pointers in python. Is there a pointer
>type? If so, what is the syntax?
Since you ask this I assume you come from a C background.
All Python variables are references. References are similar to C pointers
(indeed, internally they are implemented the same way) except references
don't support pointer arithmetic.
So you don't need to declare a variable of type "pointer to string" (or what
have you) because all Python variables could be considered to have the type
"reference to object."
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