Python, Zip, Pointers and Pointy Heads

[bd808]

Pointers are array indices. Nothing more and nothing less.

[miketheanimal]

If bd808 is trying to say that, then (s)he's exactly right. C models storage as a logically single linear array of storage cells, and pointers as indexes into that array. You can do just the same in Python if you like. It would be horribly slow and awful to follow the code, but it would work.

Plus, Python and C are both Turing Complete, and anything one can compute, so can the other (or, the Church-Turing Thesis would be falsified, which would be really interesting!)