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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>:

> That's why I always try to say “Python doesn't have variables the way
> you might know from many other languages”,

Please elaborate. To me, Python variables are like variables in all
programming languages I know. Python currently does not allow me to
obtain the "address" of a variable, but that doesn't make me think of
Python variables any differently.


Marko