On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > Tom Anderson wrote: > >> When you say [:], do you mean that you copy lists like this: >> >> l = someList() >> m = [] >> m[:] = l > > Forwarded to python-list, where it belongs. The idiom is actually: > > a = [1, 2, 3] > b = a[:]
Aha. I'd never thought of that. Doh. tom -- 10 PARTY : GOTO 10 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
