How to copy a dictionary and only edit the copy

Question

Can someone please explain this to me? This doesn\'t make any sense to me.

I copy a dictionary into another and edit the second and both are changed. Why is this hap

Answer 1

This confused me too, initially, because I was coming from a C background.

In C, a variable is a location in memory with a defined type. Assigning to a variable copies the data into the variable's memory location.

But in Python, variables act more like pointers to objects. So assigning one variable to another doesn't make a copy, it just makes that variable name point to the same object.