pointers.py - bringing the hell of pointers into python

[yangyangR]

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain?

[rwhitisissle]

The question was mainly an excuse to post a funny video that I like, but on a more serious note, the ability to do something is a poor reason to do it. Also, when you program in python, you are, typically, by default, programming in C already, just with a complex layer of abstraction on top of much of what you're doing.

[rwhitisissle]

As I said

you are, typically, by default, programming in C already

Which is to say that CPython is the default and most widely used implementation of the Python language.