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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

 > But you still find a few people here and there who have been exposed to Java
> foolishness, and will argue that Python is "pass by value, where the value
> is an implementation dependent reference to the thing that you thought was
> the value".

To quote Niklaus Wirth (the father of Pascal, Modula-2 etc.),
"You may call me by name. But you may also call me by reference".