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Topic Series: Assignment and Mutation

Trey Hunner

2 minute read • Works on Python 3.7—3.10

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In Python, you can use an assignment statement to mutate an object.

Assigning to an index will mutate the object you're indexing

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Augmented assignments mutate

When possible, augmented assignments (in-place addition for example) operate "in place", meaning they do both an assignment and a mutation at the same time (except with immutable objects).