Modifying function arguments

Question

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I\'ve looked for a while and not really found the answer.

If I\'m writing a python function, for example:

def f         


        

Answer 1

you can do:

def function(in1, in2):
   return  in1 + 1 , in2 + 1

a, b = function(a,b)
c, d = function(c,d)

python functions are closed -> when function(a,b) s called, a and b get reassigned to a local (to the function) references/pointers in1 and in2, which are not accessible outside of the function. provide references to those new values w/o using globals, you will need to pass that back through return.

When you pass an array or non primitive object into a function, you can modify the object's attributes and have those modifications be visible to other references for that object outside, because the object itself contain the pointers to those values, making the visible to anything else holding a pointer to that object.