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A minor headache for a beginner coder (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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if var1 equals 1, and you run var2 = var1, that sets var2 to 1.

if list1 equals [1, 2, 3], and you run list2 = list1, that sets list2 to list1

so if you then run var1 = 2, var2 will still be 1

but if you run list1 = [3, 2, 1], list2 will give [3, 2, 1]

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

True. Since it's all interpreted, it doesn't act like primitives in things like C and everything is an object, that is a ref of some sort. However, there is a difference between how Python "primitives" and Python collections work within the language syntax.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Now I'm curious what differences you are talking about, because I'm no Python expert, but I can't think of any. If you mean identity representation, no, it's not different:

    >>> a = 65535
>>> b = 65535
>>> a is b
False
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