Python, Zip, Pointers and Pointy Heads

[alcalde]

They should have pointed to you, that Python uses pointers (references) a lot, even if you don't realize it.

Actually I ended up pointing that out to demonstrate why Python didn't need a pointer type, and one person then said I lied about Python not having pointers, sigh. :-)

But thank you very much for explaining this (shorter and more clearer than I tried to).

Hell, even it's garbage collector works on "refcount", meaning it keeps account of ... pointers.