Example of bijective continuous map for which the induced map between the fundamental group is not an isomorphism?

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Is there any bijective continuous map for which the induced map between the fundamental group is not an isomorphism?

My attempt: If $f: X \rightarrow Y$ is any bijective continuous map, then it is an homeomorphism if $X$ is compact and $Y$ is Hausdorff. And we know that homemorphic spaces have isomorphic fundamental groups. I cannot think of any specific examples.

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A simple counterexample is everyone's favorite bijective continuous non-homeomorphism: $$f : [0,1) \to S^1, \quad f(t) = (\cos(2 \pi t), \sin(2 \pi t)) $$

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Another counterexample is the identity mapping $I : \Bbb{R} \to \Bbb{R}$ where the topology on the domain is the discrete topology and the topology on the codomain is the usual topology. You can construct a gazillion counterexamples along these lines.