Simple newbie question about parameters handling in functions (or am I dump or what?)

[Aahz]

In article <hqbh20d9k80eccav78bbsku8hciftnbiuq at 4ax.com>,
Niki Iv  <niki_iv at abv.bg> wrote:
>
>Well this is my first Python day. I am tampering with functions. I
>read that parameters are passed by-value rather than by-reference. So
>function can change wathever parameters reffers to. My troube (well my
>presonal not understanding comes from this)

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