Semantics of Python variable names from a C++ perspective
If you are going to start programming in Python and come from languages like C or C++, there are a couple of things you should know about variable names. In Python, variable names do not have the same behaviour as in C++. Part of this is clarified in the Python documentation, but I’ll try to give specific examples of things that work and don’t work as you may expect, and why.
All variables are references
Yes, that’s right. In Python, all variables are references. In C++, a reference is a type of data that behaves like a pointer but that has “normal” variable syntax. Other languages coined the name alias for this type of data. In other words:
int foo = 3;
int &bar = foo;
When creating the reference to int named bar, both foo and bar are names for the same variable or object.
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