Robert Dailey wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed in Python all function parameters seem to be passed by > reference. This means that when I modify the value of a variable of a > function, the value of the variable externally from the function is > also modified. > > Sometimes I wish to work with "copies", in that when I pass in an > integer variable into a function, I want the function to be modifying > a COPY, not the reference. Is this possible? > > Thanks. >
Not only is this possible, that is actually what happens with ints! -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
