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Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings

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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Mok-Kong Shen
<mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation of the output obtained. But this means
> nonetheless that parameters of types lists and strings are dealt with
> in "inherently" (semantically) different ways by Python, right?

It's nothing to do with parameters, but yes, lists are mutable and
strings are immutable. A tuple will behave the same way a string does:

>>> a
(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> b=a
>>> a+=5,    # note that "5," is a one-element tuple
>>> a
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
>>> b
(1, 2, 3, 4)


By the way:

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:
> But if you said  c=651 and d=651, you'd have two
> objects, and the two names would be bound to different objects, with
> different ids.

To be more accurate, you *may* have two different objects. It's
possible for things to be optimized (eg with small numbers, or with
constants compiled at the same time).

ChrisA

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[newbie] A question about lists and strings Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-08-10 11:19 +0200
  Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Roman Vashkevich <vashkevichrb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 13:28 +0400
  Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Roman Vashkevich <vashkevichrb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 13:48 +0400
    Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-08-10 12:12 +0200
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 20:37 +1000
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-10 06:37 -0400
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Roman Vashkevich <vashkevichrb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 14:56 +0400
        Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-08-10 13:08 +0200
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-10 06:56 -0400
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 21:00 +1000
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Roman Vashkevich <vashkevichrb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 15:06 +0400
  Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-08-10 11:59 +0200
    Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2012-08-10 16:12 +0100
  Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-10 06:07 -0400
    Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-08-10 12:31 +0200
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 20:40 +1000
        Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-08-10 12:48 +0200
          Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-10 06:58 -0400
      Re: [newbie] A question about lists and strings Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-08-10 06:53 -0400

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