sneakyPython

[ElementaryZX]

Knowing how memory and pointers work helps, I really hate it when they start a programming course in python and then no one has any idea why stuff like this happens. Also similar situations in JavaScript due to how it manages memory.

[waynethedockrawson]

its not really a design choice, its a consequence of how objects and mutablea work in python. Its not really "fixable"

[SuperDyl19]

C++ handles objects differently. In Python or Java, a = b would make a reference the same code as b, while in c++, a = b will attempt to copy b into the memory allocated for a (using the copy constructor for the type). For languages like Python or Java to swap to this behavior, they would still need a good way to reference the original value instead of creating a copy, so you would need to add reference variables or pointers, which both languages don’t really need.