[Tutor] FYI

Remco Gerlich scarblac@pino.selwerd.nl
Sat, 14 Apr 2001 21:54:17 +0200


On  0, Pedro Diaz Jimenez <pdiaz88@terra.es> wrote:
> Moral:  lists, dictionaries (and all other objects???) are copies by 
> reference, be careful when you pass them to functions

Yes, all other objects as well. Assignment is by reference. Python never
copies things "by itself".

If the object is immutable, like a string or an integer, you'll never
notice the difference, of course (except it's faster this way).

-- 
Remco Gerlich