Check Your Prediction

When you swap the values of two variables such as x and y, x will have the initial value in y and y will have the initial value in x. If x’s initial value was 6 and y’s was 2 then after the swap x will have a value of 2 and y will have a value of 6.

Run the code below. Does it correctly swap the values?

Run the code below. Does it correctly swap the values?

# set the initial values of x and y x = 6 y = 2 # print the values print("x =", x) print("y =", y) # swap the values of x and y x = y y = x # print the values print("x =", x) print("y =", y)

Q-2: Explain why the code prints what it does. Why doesn’t it swap the values (x and y both have a value of 2 at the end)?

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