Python Question / Quiz; What is the output of the following Python code, and why? Comment your answers below!
Answer: a) [1, 2, 3] The .copy() saves the day! › y = x.copy() creates a NEW list in memory › x.append(4) only modifies x's list › y remains unchanged: [1, 2, 3] For beginners: Lists are boxes, variables are stickers. y = x puts another sticker on the same box. y = x.copy()…
Python students seeing .copy() for the first time be like: ‘Wait… why didn’t it change too?’
Too easy Let's make it weirder: x = [[1, 2, 3]] y = x.copy() y[0].append(4) print(x) What will the output be?
A. Since y is an independent copy of subsistent changes on x so it’s [1,2,3]
Will be [1,2,3] After the copy, a new list is allocated in another memory address with the same items, but original remains at the same address.
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