while true: !!!

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 18-Dec-00 deadmeat wrote:
 >  however I don't know if variables passed to Python functions can be
 >  altered?

They can if they are mutable:

>>> def test(x):
...   x[1]=4
... 
>>> a=[1,2,3]
>>> test(a)
>>> a
[1, 4, 3]



/Mikael

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