[Edu-sig] Sticky-note Analogy

[kirby urner]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:49 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Names are little more than Unicode string literals with top-level
>  significance, each paired with an object in a dictionary (the
>  namespace).
>

Postscript to the above remark:

I finally got around to using some Chinese characters as
actual Python names, vs. simply as string literals, as in

from testuni import [chinese ideogram]  # import a class

Here's a screen shot:
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/05/chinese-names-in-python.html

>  So in C, intelligence about type remains with the variables
>  (we might say), whereas in Python it remains with the objects,
>  which are quite introspective.
>
>  Kirby
>