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Python Introduction to NumPy Meet NumPy Creating the Study Log

Cody Stephenson
Cody Stephenson
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Posted by Cody Stephenson
Cody Stephenson
8,361 Points

How are we able to update the daily minutes entries in the array after it has been created if arrays are immutable?

The array is created with all zeros in a previous cell - then we are able to change entries by index in a later cell. This seems contrary to arrays being immutable? Or is it strictly the size and datatype that are immutable?

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Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Hey Cody Stephenson, arrays are mutable. There is a writable flag that can be set to raise an error on a write attempt. The does not stop the ability of previous references to the array from writing to elements.

So a slice created before setting writable to False, is not blocked. “...locking a base object does not lock any views that already reference it”. See docs under writable. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.ndarray.flags.html