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Ownership and Borrowing

Medium +3 pts

🎯 In Python, you never think about who "owns" a value:

def label(item): return f"Product: {item}" item = "Laptop" tag = label(item) print(item) # still works — item wasn't consumed

Every variable is a reference to a garbage-collected object. Pass it to a function, return it, store it — the GC handles cleanup.

Rust has no garbage collector. Instead, it uses ownership — every value has exactly one owner, and when the owner goes out of scope, …

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