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def test(lst): lst[0] = 'test' print 'inside', lst lst = [0,0,0,0] print 'before', lst test(lst) print 'after', lst
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before [0, 0, 0, 0] inside ['test', 0, 0, 0] after ['test', 0, 0, 0]