Sat 17 May 2025

title: "Immutable Int" author: "Rj" date: 2019-04-20 description: "List Test" type: technical_note draft: false

a = 12

dictionary = {
  "one": a
}

a

12

dictionary

{'one': 12}

a += 9

a

21

dictionary

{'one': 12}

int is immutable, that's why you can't see the dictionary value changed

Here you are assigning to key 'a' same reference as one.

So now dictionary['one'] and a points to the same object 12.

Now when you write: a += 9 it creates a new object 21 and assigns var to this object.

Score: 5

Category: basics