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On 12/22/2011 10:20 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> which is to define the names "a", "b", and "c", and connects the three
> names to the single object (integer 7 or new empty list).

note that this "connects" and "disconnecting" business is more commonly 
referred to in python parlance as "binding" a name to an object.