On Apr 10, 9:49 pm, sophie_newbie <paulgeele...@gmail.com> wrote: > Scratch everything I said, copy() does work. Made a wee mistake > somewhere else. > > Apologies if I've wasted anyones time!
Ummmm ... if think you need a dict.copy() *after* the function has returned, then you are likely to be doing it in a way that perhaps you shouldn't make a habit of :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list