Alex Martelli wrote: > So, *WHAT ON EARTH* could possibly > make this weird 'x[:]' form preferable to 'x*1'?! It's MUCH more > obvious that the second one returns an independent, separate object > initially equal to x
.>> x = 2 .>> y = x*1 .>> x is y True .>> just-kidding-ly yours, Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list