Finding the instance reference of an object

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:50:55 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:

> I am probably egregiously misunderstanding. The practical difficulty
> with the "moving huge blocks of data" approach would appear to emerge
> when a function that gets passed an instance of some container then
> calls another function that references the same container as a global,
> for example.

I have no doubt whatsoever that such an implementation would be fragile, 
complicated, convoluted and slow. In other words, it would be terrible. 
But that's merely a Quality of Implementation issue. It would still be 
Python.


-- 
Steven