Modifying Class Object

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/9/2010 12:12 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> As far as the language spec is concerned the argument passing mechanism
> seems to me to be identical to assignments, not just "very much like".

Except for the cross-namespace nature of the assignment, yes. Glad you 
agree.

> Your phrase "or objects derived therefrom" seems to imply that immutable
> objects can be copied

No. Given

def f(*args, **kwds): print(args, kwds)

the objects bound to args and kwds are a tuple and dict *derived* from 
(that collect together) the objects passed.

Terry Jan Reedy