notice that cheese spam copies the list reference in spam to cheeseinstead of copying the list value itself now both spam and cheese store reference that refers to the same list value but there is only one list the list was not copiedthe reference to the list was copied figure - shows this copying figure - two variables store two references to the same list so the cheese[ 'hello!line changes the same list that spam refers to this is why spam seems to have the same list value that cheese does they both have references that refer to the same listas shown in figure - figure - changing the list changes all variables with references to that list post questions to