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Assignment to argument names doesn't affect the caller

This is something that can be tricky to understand at first, so let's look at an example:

# key.points.assignment.pyx = 3def func(x):    x = 7  # defining a local x, not changing the global onefunc(x)print(x)  # prints: 3

In the preceding code, when the x = 7 line is executed, within the local scope of the func function, the name, x, is pointed to an integer with a value of 7, leaving the global x unaltered.