Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python

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Sanjib Sinha, Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2541-7_9

9. Variables, Objects and Values

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

(1)Howrah, West Bengal, India

In Python everything is an object . To start with, you need to remember a few things:

1. Variables, functions and even code are objects.

2. Every object has an ID, type, and value.

   ID stands for identification of a particular instance of an object. This ID cannot change in the lifetime of that object.

3. Type identifies a class of an object. It cannot change for the life of object.

4. Value is the content of the object and mutable objects can only change value. Immutable objects cannot change value.

5. Every variable in Python is a first class object. What looks like a simple variable ...