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Python Program Output

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A patient-notes utility in this healthcare platform's EHR module has two small helper functions used when building a clinician's daily schedule view. Trace through the program exactly as the Python interpreter would, line by line, and state precisely what the three print calls output.

def add_note(notes=[]):
    notes.append("checked vitals")
    return notes


def build_schedules(patient_ids):
    schedules = []
    for pid in patient_ids:
        schedules.append(lambda: f"Patient {pid} scheduled")
    return schedules


patient_a_notes = add_note()
patient_b_notes = add_note()

patient_ids = [101, 102, 103]
schedules = build_schedules(patient_ids)

results = [s() for s in schedules]

print(patient_a_notes)
print(patient_b_notes)
print(results)

Do not just state the output, explain the two separate Python behaviors that produce it, since that reasoning is what is actually being graded here.