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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by d0mine on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:18PM (#18710155)
Here are pictures that explain the difference between variables as named boxes and names in Python https://david.goodger.org/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/hand...
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by tom_mellior on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:52PM (#18710427)
That's a nice explanation for BASIC programmers, but for anyone who has ever programmed in some other programming language than BASIC, it should not come as a surprise that named boxes can store pointer values. As they do in Python. They literally store C pointers of type (PyObject *).
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by d0mine on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:13PM (#18727408)
Python is not C. There are no pointers in Python.

I have no idea why would you mention BASIC here.

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