mutate dictionary or list

Wed Sep 8 06:04:24 EDT 2010

On 7 sep, 16:46, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> de... at web.de writes:
> > Objects can be mutable or immutable. For example, in Python, integers,
> > strings, floats and tuples are immutable. That means that you can't
> > change their value.
>> Yes. Importantly, wherever you see code that you *think* is changing the
> value of an immutable object, you're thinking incorrectly. (There's no
> shame in that; other languages give us preconceptions that can be hard
> to shake off.)
>> The only way to get a different value from an integer object is to ask
> Python for a different integer object; the original is unchanged. The
> same goes for tuples, strings, and all the other immutable types.
>> > Mutable objects OTOH can be changed.
>> […]
>> Some good articles to explain Python's object model:
>>      <URL:http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm>
>      <URL:http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#objects-values-and-types>
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> Ben Finney

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Baba