What the Pythons docs means by "container" ?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Feb 17 19:54:32 EST 2015
On 2/17/2015 4:21 PM, candide wrote:
> Official Python documentation very frequently invokes a mysterious *container* data structure. The PLR manual explains :
I use 'collection' rather than 'container'.
> --------------------------
> Some objects contain references to other objects; these are called containers.
> --------------------------
A mathematical set has 'members', like a club. Objects, like people,
can be members of 0 to many clubs. Containing 'references', and the
nature of said references is a computer implementation issue. There are
no 'references' in math.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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