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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015, at 22:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> That's not a reference to the value. That's a string that describes the
> object.

Well, of course. None of these things are strings.

The normal human-readable representation of a reference is an arrow on a
diagram, pointing from a box that represents the variable to a box that
represents the object. But I can't exactly put that in a text-based
email.