Re: Extinct
You're explicitly creating a pointer to the object, it's clear what you're doing. Say you were using the C++ STL, you could create a vector with a copy of another vector explicitly. But in Python it's not particularly clear that what you're doing here is assigning an object reference so a and b apply to the same object (yes, once you're familiar with Python this is less surprising). And indeed the ways of actually copying an array are all a bit weird.
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