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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:38:48 -0400
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this code?
To: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> strictly speaking Python doesn't have variables, it has names.  This will
> possibly start a flame war which, by the standards of this ng/ml, will be an
> intense conflagration, hence the duck and cover.

The two terms are nearly synonymous when one talks about Python (and
both are used in the language reference).

I mean, what's so "strict" about the way you're speaking?

-- Devin