Jiri Barton wrote: > Yes, now it is clear! > > As always, I should have RTFM, the operator* is not just a syntactic sugar > and thus does not make copies.
That issue bites, like, everyone. > You know, my actual scenario was with four > variables at the time: > > a, b, c, d = [], [], [], [] Incidentally, to create a list of 37 distinct empty lists, you can use: [[] for _ in range(37)] -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list