Re: [Tutor] Python internals

2013-05-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 04/05/13 23:04, kartik sundarajan wrote: Hi, I am trying to learn how Python stores variables in memory. For ex: my_var = 'test' def func(): pass when I type dir() I get ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', '__package__', 'func', 'help', 'my_var'] are these variables stored in a

[Tutor] Python internals

2013-05-04 Thread kartik sundarajan
Hi, I am trying to learn how Python stores variables in memory. For ex: my_var = 'test' def func(): pass when I type dir() I get ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', '__package__', 'func', 'help', 'my_var'] are these variables stored in a dict and on calling dir() all the keys are retu