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On Thu, Jun 9, 2016, at 03:30, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Then you think wrong. Python has no pointers, that is an implementation
> detail.

Nonsense. A binary number referring to a memory address is an
implementation detail. A pointer/reference/arrow-thingy-on-a-diagram is
the thing it is an implementation detail *of*.