[issue38966] List similarity relationship

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[issue38966] List similarity relationship

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[issue38966] List similarity relationship

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: This is same as doing the below with list1 getting a reference of list2. Assignments in Python don't copy the value but make a reference. This is not an issue specific to IDLE as tagged and has the same behaviour under a normal REPL. https://docs.p

[issue38966] List similarity relationship

New submission from Pranav Pandya : When list is initialized and equated to give the same value as list1=list2=[], then post initialization list1 & list2 are taken as same values and any changes in list2 are changed in list 1 and so on. Thus during initialization if lists are equated, they a