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.

Here is how I unde

Answer 1

numpy.copy() function page has an explanation

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.copy.html

The example it gives is as follows:

Create an array x, with a reference y and a copy z:

x = np.array([1, 2, 3])
y = x
z = np.copy(x)

Note that, when we modify x, y changes, but not z:

x[0] = 10
x[0] == y[0]
True
x[0] == z[0]
False