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    "# Data aliasing\n",
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    "One of the trickiest things about programming is figuring out exactly what data a variable refers to. Remember that we use names like `data` and `salary` to represent memory cells holding data values. The names are easier to remember than the physical memory addresses, but we can get fooled. For example, it's obvious that two variables `x` and `y` can both have the same integer value 7:"
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      "7 7\n"
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    "x = y = 7\n",
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    "But, did you know that they are both referring to the same 7 object? In other words, variables in Python are always references or pointers to data so the variables are not technically holding the value.  Pointers are like phone numbers that \"point at\" phones but pointers themselves are not the phone itself.\n",
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    "We can uncover this secret level of indirection using the built-in `id(x)` function that returns the physical memory address pointed out by `x`. To demonstrate that, let's ask what `x` and `y` point at:"
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    "Wow! They are the same.  That number represents the memory location where Python has stored the shared 7 object."
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    "Of course, as programmers we don't think of these atomic elements as referring to the same object; just keep in mind that they do. We are more likely to view them as copies of the same number, as lolviz shows visually:"
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    "Ok, great, so we are in fact sharing the same memory address to hold the string `'parrt'` and both of the variable names point at that same shared space. We call this *aliasing*, in the language implementation business.\n",
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