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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)
>>
>> Go ahead, start an edit war at that page over its use of "variable". :)
>> Right there it talks about copying values into variables. So if Python
>> has no variables, then either that article is inappropriate, or Python
>> has no assignment either.
>
> Python assignment doesn't copy values.

So either the article is wrong, or Python doesn't have assignment. Which is it?

ChrisA