I know that variables in Python are really just references/pointers to some underlying object(s). And since they're pointers, I guess they somehow "store" or are otherwise associated with the address of the objects they refer to. Such an "address storage" probably happens at a low level in the CPython implementation. But my knowledge of C isn't good enough to infer this from the source code, nor do I know where in the source to begin looking. So, my question is: In the implementation of CPython, how are object addresses stored in, or otherwise associated with, the variables which point to them? Continue reading...
