It seems to me it describes pretty much what happens in C++, but with pythonized syntax, because explaining the exact syntax of all the sigils would be too much for such a short article.
std::vector<int> t = {0, 1};
It all stems from the different behaviour of = in Python and C++ - in Python = binds the name on the left to the value on the right and you can have any number of names for a value; in C++ each name is exactly one value (even in the case of references - the reference itself is a pointer and there's no other name that signifies the memory in which that pointer value is stored) and = copies the value from the thing on the right to the thing on the left, in a way determined by the thing on the left (so for references the value is copied to the thing that the reference points to and other types can override operator= to do whatever they like), but the base concept is that = copies a value from one place to another (or moves it if it's an xvalue and you're using C++11 and what's on the left implements move-assignment).
P.S. Since C++ lets you do as you like, you can for instance implement operator[](size_t, const T&) as assignment and then t[0, 2] will assign 2 to t[0]. Try putting
template <class T>
void operator[](T* p, size_t i, const T& v) { p[i] = v; }