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Series: Variable Scope
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Trey Hunner
2 min. read • 3 min. video • Python 3.8—3.11 •

In Python, scope is about assignment; it's not about mutation.

Assignment and the scope of a variable

Let's take a global variable, numbers, that point to a list of numbers:

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