[Tutor] Re: Re: copies deep and shallow

Marilyn Davis marilyn at deliberate.com
Wed Feb 18 12:41:06 EST 2004


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Andrei wrote:

[much snipped]

> > 
> > And I love the dictionary type.  So much is done for free.
> 
> I agree, but even simpler types like lists are also much better than the
> old-school arrays found in other languages. Even integers are a lot better
> because there's only one kind of them (or two, depending whether you count
> the long variety as a separate one) instead of... about five :).

Five?  In C there are so many more!  unsigned long long, time_t, size_t, 
int_64, char, ...

I'm so glad to be teaching Python.

> 
> > I'm very grateful that you have taken the time to explain all this.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> 

Thank you again.  Class tonight!

Marilyn

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