I am new to python and everything related to it, and it so happens that I just went through the numpy tutorial last night, it is in
http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial and the answer to your question is in section 3.7 Basically, if you want to make a (deep) copy of it: destarray = srcarray.copy() gsal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list