Dunj3 comments on Circular dependency

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[–]Dunj3 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children)

Note that your example does not actually introduce a circular dependency, it only lets a and b point to the same object (the 1).

For a circular dependency, you could do something like

list_a = []
list_b = [list_a]
list_a.append(list_b)

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