How variables work in Python | Explained with Animations [See description/first comment]

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This video tries to explain how variables or name bindings work in Python and their internal representations like PyObject and PyVarObjects, using animations.
Intermediate level concepts like reference counting, garbage collection, how lists work internally, why python is a dynamically typed language, interning, None objects, equality operators like '==' and 'is', how 'del' works, how variables are passed into functions(pass by reference), issues with default mutable parameters, operator overloading and behaviour of augmented arithmetic assignment operators, the behaviour of mutable element in the tuple are also explained.
It also shows how mutable and immutable data types behave differently in some scenarios. This knowledge should be useful for people coming from other languages like C, Rust, or Golang and may enable them to write better Python code.
References
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comments in CPython source code: github.com/python/cpython/blo...
Chapters
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0:00 How variables works in C
0:49 How variables works in Python
3:12 How lists are represented internally
5:37 Interning
7:12 Equality operators
8:13 Pass by reference to functions
9:18 Mutable default parameters
11:24 Augmented arithmetic assignment operators
13:12 Mutable elements in Tuple

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[@sreekanthpr]

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Very good visuals. However a small suggestion that it would be even more impactful if you explained it rather than a robotic voice reading through the statements.

[@sreekanthpr]

Thank you. I used text to speech conversion because of two main reasons: first is that I don't have a good enough setup for recording audio and this is much easier, second I'm not a native english speaker, so some people may have difficulty with the accent.

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Thanks. I'm working on the next one. Will try to upload it this week itself.

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[@sreekanthpr]

github.com/3b1b/manim for generating the video. One note >> view >> immersive reader for the audio. Davinci resolve for final mixing of video, audio and subtitles

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Excellent explanation. Thanks a lot. Correction: At 9:08, the name of the function should be the same, ie add_ten_to_list. Mistakenly mentioned as add_one_to_list.

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[@adrianosymphony]

in the time 07:01 (about 'some string' and 'some_string') don't work the same way if you run the code in a file and typing line by line in the interpreter. I tested here in some versions of python and the result was the same. Chat GPT told me why this heppended: "...when you run the code line by line in the Python interpreter, each line is executed independently, and the variables may not be stored in the same memory location. The Python interpreter, especially in interactive mode, may reuse memory for string literals that are equivalent. This is an optimization mechanism known as string interning."

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[@johnlemon9660]

thanks bro! these topics rarely get touched as well as rarely taught visually well. what did you use to make these animations?

[@sreekanthpr]

I use github.com/ManimCommunity/manim to generate the video.

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Clear

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[@t.m7617]

04:20 will the PyObject(s) reference count remain 1 no matter how many variables I assign to the PyVarObject?

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Is the term object and value in python equivalent? Or object consider a box and a value is what the box contained?

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[@mishalpatel514]

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[@sreekanthpr]

Comments from Python interpreter's source code github.com/python/cpython/blob/f572cbf1faab33d9afbbe3e95738ed6fbe6e48e6/Include/object.h#L9 and some specifics I started to notice when I learn another language and come back to Python.

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me using try {} catch {} to push items to the immutable array:

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