Those ugly prevalent explanations should be dismissed, along with the ill-advised terminology that necessities them. This answer should be enough.
Topics
About: the Python programming language
The table of contents of this article
Starting Context
- The reader has the correct knowledge of what pointer and reference are.
Target Context
- The reader will have the most succinct answer on whether Python does "pass-by-value" or "pass-by-reference".
Orientation
Hypothesizer 7
I hope it not be misunderstood: this section is a proem, not any proper part of the answer. So, the length of this section does not disprove the succinctness of the answer.
I just want to indicate that if any answer to the question has to be less succinct than mine, that is because the terminology used is ill-advised.
Main Body
1: The Answer
Hypothesizer 7
"Pass-by-value".
