"Doug Stell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I call the function, passing in a list as the input data. The function > must manipulate and operate on a copy of that list's data, without > altering the list in the calling routine. Then you will want to make a copy: listB = copy.deepcopy( listA) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list