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Re: Help understanding list operatoins inside functions in python 3

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:51 AM, <stephen.boulet@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a bit confused why in the second case x is not [1,2,3]:
>
> x = []
>
> def y():
>     x.append(1)
>
> def z():
>     x = [1,2,3]
>
> y()
> print(x)
> z()
> print(x)
>
> Output:
> [1]
> [1]
>

x in the outer scope is not x in the z() scope

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Help understanding list operatoins inside functions in python 3 stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2015-01-13 04:51 -0800
  Re: Help understanding list operatoins inside functions in python 3 Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-01-13 08:39 -0500
  Re: Help understanding list operatoins inside functions in python 3 Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@laposte.net> - 2015-01-13 14:43 +0100
  Re: Help understanding list operatoins inside functions in python 3 mortoxa <mortoxa@gmx.com> - 2015-01-14 00:49 +1100
  Re: Help understanding list operatoins inside functions in python 3 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-01-13 09:25 -0500

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