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On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT), sohcahtoa82@gmail.com declaimed
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>People actually argue that Python passes by value?  This is easily proven wrong by passing a mutable object to a function and changing it within the function.

	Which only proves you passed a mutable object... Mutating the object
means you've performed some operation that "goes inside the box".

	Try assigning a new object to it rather than mutating it... IE; don't
go inside the box, but try to change the box itself. Doesn't carry out --
which is the traditional definition of pass-by-reference: assignment
changes the passed-in-object.

	
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