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Author terry.reedy
Recipients docs@python, eli.bendersky, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, rhettinger, terry.reedy, tshepang
Date 2012-02-26.20:32:36
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I think we should feel free to change 'variable' to 'name', especially in the Intro, if it can be done gracefully in context. In my experience with python-list, the former seems a source of confusion for Python newbies. I try to avoid it when writing about Python.
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2012-02-26 20:32:37terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, rhettinger, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, eli.bendersky, docs@python, tshepang
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