How to assign a memory address to a variable in Python?

Question

here\'s the scenario:

I foolishly forget to assign the returned object to a variable:

>>> open(\"random_file.txt\")


        

Answer 1

Python is a high level language. You can't (not directly anyway) mess with memory addresses so the answer is no.

The REPL however does conveniently store the result of the last expression in a magic variable _. You can fetch it from there. To quote your example.

>>> open("/etc/passwd","r") #Oops I forgot to assign it

>>> f = _ # Not to worry. It's stored as _
>>> f

>>>