list vs tuple
Remco Gerlich
scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Sun Apr 1 11:56:27 EDT 2001
deadmeat <root@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > The same statement behaves *exactly the same*.
>
> No, it doesn't.
>
> > It's the next statements
> > (b[5] = 9, b = 9) that behave entirely differently.
>
> Are you on crack? a = b in the first example copies the data across.
It does not. It merely makes the pointer 'a' point to the same thing 'b' is
pointing to. '=' never copies, that would be inconsistent.
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Remco Gerlich
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