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https://robertheaton.com/2014/02/09/pythons-pass-by-object-reference-as-explained-by-philip-k-dick/
This article makes things complicated.
Forget about the box metaphore in it.
Variablea are copied to functions by address.
Inside a function, while some operations (like .append()) are applied through dereferencing ,
others like reassignment are done by assigning a new address.
That's it. Nothing more.
https://robertheaton.com/2014/02/09/pythons-pass-by-object-reference-as-explained-by-philip-k-dick/
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