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

When you store spam = 42 , it creates an object in the memory. Then you assign cheese = spam , It assigns the object referenced by spam to cheese. And finally, when you change spam = 100, it changes only spam object. So cheese = 42.