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Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

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Le 08/05/2014 02:35, Ben Finney a écrit :
> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>
>> Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>:
>>
>>> That's why I always try to say “Python doesn't have variables the way
>>> you might know from many other languages”,
>>
>> Please elaborate. To me, Python variables are like variables in all
>> programming languages I know.
>
> Many established and still-popular languages have the following
> behaviour::
>
>      # pseudocode
>
>      foo = [1, 2, 3]
>      bar = foo          # bar gets the value [1, 2, 3]
>      assert foo == bar  # succeeds
>      foo[1] = "spam"    # foo is now == [1, "spam", 3]
>      assert foo == bar  # FAILS, ‘bar’ == [1, 2, 3]
>
> This is because such languages treat each variable as “containing” a
> value. Assignment puts another copy of the value in the variable, after
> which those two values have a distinct history. What happens to one
> value does not affect the other.
>
> Python, on the other hand, has this behaviour::
>
>      foo = [1, 2, 3]
>      bar = foo          # ‘bar’ binds to the value ‘[1, 2, 3]’
>      assert foo == bar  # succeeds
>      foo[1] = "spam"    # ‘foo’ *and* ‘bar’ now == [1, "spam", 3]
>      assert foo == bar  # succeeds, ‘bar’ is bound to ‘[1, "spam", 3]’
>
> The assignment statement in Python does not put a value in a container,
> the way it does for variables in many popular languages. Instead,
> assignment binds the left-hand-side reference (in these examples, names)
> to the right-hand-side value. Both remain references to the same value
> until the binding changes to some other value.
>
> So Python doesn't have variables in the way programmers coming from many
> other languages expect. Instead, it has references bound to values.
>
For me, names bound to values is the same concept as pointer pointing to 
memory. bar = foo copies the pointer and not the underlying memory. This 
is not a foreign concept to C programmers.


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            Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-08 17:05 -0700
            Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-09 01:47 +0100
      Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-08 00:57 +0000
      Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-08 08:41 -0400
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        Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-08 06:18 -0700
          Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-08 17:03 +0300
            Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-08 16:09 -0700
        Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-05-08 10:47 -0400

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