[Tutor] globals( ) and binding doubt (newbie) !

[Karthik Gurumurthy]

for a moment i totally forgot about the reference semantics and got too
drawn into globals and "name" look up and stuff like that :-)
am doing quite a bit of python reading these days.

a,b,c were refering to 3 objects
i added them to a list
then i made a,b and c point to different objects
and expected the list to point to the ones initialized last
which is wrong.

I got confused because i was looking at the globals() which reflected the
change.

The earlier objects are obviously not garbage collected since the lists were
holding on to
references to them.

uhhm.

thanks
karthik.




-----Original Message-----
From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk@qwest.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:13 PM
To: Karthik Gurumurthy
Cc: tutor@python.org; python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] globals( ) and binding doubt (newbie) !
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>
>thanks for your patience!
>karthik

Not exactly sure what's going on here, but note that
if you don't explicity return a value from a function
(print a doesn't count -- that's not returning), the
the function returns None.

In the examples you give, your functions behave as
they were defined, by returning None.

Kirby