Confusion: assignments create object references.

[Havens, Peter]

// -----Original Message-----
// From: Mike C. Fletcher [mailto:mcfletch at rogers.com]
//
// Because Python isn't C ;) .  Seriously, what you want to 
// think about is namespaces and names.  A name is a simple 
// mapping from a string to a (smart (i.e. reference-counted))
// PyObject * (under the covers).  That is, a name holds a 
// reference (pointer) to an object.  That's all it ever 
// holds a reference to.  It never holds a reference to another name  
// "slot"(though it can hold the same string value as a name, 
// but that's still just a string object).

Eureka! This makes perfect sense to me now!! Thank you kindly for your help. Genius makes the incredible seem obvious. You're a genius :>

Pete