I was trying to create nodes of minimax algorithm. However, I was debugging the function and I saw that my local variable 'newstate' changes when the 'state' changes. Is there something that I should know about python? Because I am a new programmer and I want to know why it changes. Thank you for your time.
def successorsgenerator(state):
state=list(state)
print (state)
state[-1]=toggle(state[-1])
print (state)
newstate=state
i=0
while newstate[0]>=0 and i<3:
state.append(tuple(newstate))
newstate[0] -= 1
i+=1
print(state)
print('result', state)
def toggle(state):
state = 'min' if state == 'max' else 'max'
return state
successorsgenerator(5,'max')
result>> [2, 'min', (5, 'min'), (4, 'min', (5, 'min')), (3, 'min', (5, 'min'), (4, 'min', (5, 'min')))]
