What happens when you assign the value of one variable to another variable in Python?

Question

This is my second day of learning python (I know the basics of C++ and some OOP.), and I have some slight confusion regarding variables in python.

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Answer 1

What is happening in spam = 100 line is replacement of previous value (pointer to object of type int with value 42) with another pointer to another object (type int, value 100)