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  Re: why x is changed in the following program? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-03-18 11:37 +0100

#105194 — Re: why x is changed in the following program?

maurice.charbit@telecom-paristech.fr wrote:

> from numpy import random
> x=random.randn(6)

In Python 

> y=x

doesn't make a copy, it binds y to the same object as x. From now on every 
modification you apply to y

> y[0]=12

 affects x, too, because x and y refer to the same object.

> print x[0]

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