Comment on Python: copying a list the right wayparentComments−keeperofdakeys14yc = [4,5,6] is creating a new list, and assigning it to c; not modifying the list that c pointed to. The '=' operator simply associates an object reference to a variable. Going d=c is copying the reference to an object from one variable to another.
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c = [4,5,6] is creating a new list, and assigning it to c; not modifying the list that c pointed to. The '=' operator simply associates an object reference to a variable. Going d=c is copying the reference to an object from one variable to another.