Paddy wrote:
> ... irrelevant as in 'although only mutable objects can have their
> state modified; if n has a mutable value but the assignment statement
> changed n to refer to another object, then the name would be tagged as
> local'?
>
> Oh bosh, can anyone come at it from a different tack?
look for "Assignment of an object to a single target is recursively
defined as follows" on this page (or at the corresponding page in the
language reference):
http://pyref.infogami.com/assignments
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