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A developer assigns a list to two variables. What does this print, and what is the key insight about list assignment in Python?

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a = [1, 2, 3]
b = a
c = a.copy()

a.append(4)

print(b)
print(c)
print(a is b)
print(a is c)

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a = [1, 2, 3]
b = a
c = a.copy()

a.append(4)

print(b)
print(c)
print(a is b)
print(a is c)