[Python-Dev] Names again (was Re: type categories)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:31:17 +1200 (NZST)


Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com>:

> Going off on a tangent (and riding one of my favorite hobby horses),
> Python doesn't have variables.

Only for some definitions of the word "variable". And
not the definition we have in mind when we use the
word "variable" in a Python context (if we do at all).

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