En Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:07:03 -0300, gu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> after two days debugging my code, i've come to the point that the > problem was caused by an unexpected behaviour of python. or by lack of > some information about the program, of course! i've stripped down the > code to reproduce the problem: > > <code> > a = {} > > for x in range(10): > for y in range(10): > a[x,y] = "0" > > copyOfA = a copyOfA is *NOT* a copy - it's just another name pointing to the SAME object as a. Python will never copy anything unless told explicitely. Read this <http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm> -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list