in-place value modification (was Re: lambda without vars?)

[Jeff Pinyan]

On Mar 15, Jeff Pinyan said:

>>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>>> def app(name,val):
>...   tmp = globals()[name]
>...   tmp.append(val)
>...
>>>> app('a',4)
>>>> a
>[1, 2, 3, 4]

This could also be done just by

>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>> def foo(this):
...  this.append(1)
...
>>> foo(a)
>>> a
[1, 2, 3, 1]

but I brought in globals() to preface the ugly chomp() example.

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