Can you help me solve this?

Pieter van Oostrum pieter-l at vanoostrum.org
Mon Mar 16 18:22:57 EDT 2020


Joseph Nail <joseph2001nail at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> I have one problem. Somehow in my function when I wrote y=x, they are the
> same variable and then it also changes age or height (which were x) in the
> main program. See more in attached file.
> Maybe it is bug or maybe it should run that way.

If you write y = x, then they are not the same variable, but they point to (the proper Python language is they are bound to) the same object.

Now if you say x.age = 20, then y.age will also be 20 (it's the same object).
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