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Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference?

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Subject Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference?
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 4:46:25 PM UTC-4, emile wrote:
> > On 07/22/2014 01:35 PM, Peter Pearson wrote:
> > def reassign(mylist):  # no reason to shadow the list builtin
> >      mylist[:] = [0,1]
> > mylist = [1]
> > reassign(mylist)
> > mylist
> > Emile
>
> Thanks for your example. I do not find the explanation of [:] on line.
> Could you
> explain it to me, or where can I find it on line?
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Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 12:04 -0700
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-07-22 15:32 -0400
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 12:54 -0700
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 12:34 -0700
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-07-22 20:35 +0000
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 13:46 -0700
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 15:17 -0700
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 18:26 -0400
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 15:33 -0700
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 19:06 -0400
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 15:31 -0700
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 15:40 -0700
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 16:00 -0700
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 16:10 -0700
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-22 20:27 -0400
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 18:49 -0700
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-23 11:59 +1000
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-23 05:35 +0000
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 16:07 +1000
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-23 16:25 +1000
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-23 18:51 -0400
            Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-24 03:22 +0000
              Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-24 05:05 +0000
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-23 05:36 +0000
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-23 18:32 -0400
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-07-25 15:20 +1000
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-23 01:56 +0000

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