Exam PCEP-30-02 topic 1 question 25 discussion

The expected output of the code is: False Explanation: data.copy() creates a shallow copy of the dictionary data. The new dictionary (person) contains the same key-value pairs but resides at a different memory location. id(data) retrieves the memory address of the data dictionary. id(person) retrieves the memory address of the person dictionary. Since the two dictionaries are separate objects, id(data) is not equal to id(person), and the comparison id(data) == id(person) evaluates to False.

Create a dictionary: data = {'name': 'Peter', 'age': 30} creates a dictionary with two key-value pairs. Make a copy: person = data.copy() creates a new dictionary person that is a copy of data. This means person has its own memory address, separate from data. Compare IDs: id(data) == id(person) compares the memory addresses of data and person. Since they are different objects, their IDs will not be equal, resulting in False. Selected Answer: A

This method doesn’t modify the original, dictionary just returns copy of the dictionary. if we do person = data >>> result would be True

a is correct answer / copy and [:] are swallow copies so id changes