[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I'd like to see here is that b gets a copy of A so that the > original A won't be modified as we play with b. However, as we assign a > constant value A to b, I wouldn't want to restrict myself from playing > with b.
If A is a list you can take a copy-slice liek this: >>> b = A[:] and changes to b won't affect A. For the general case where A isn't a list, you can use the copy module to make shallow or deep copies of A. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-copy.html It's not quite as simple or as strict as declaring A constant, but it works. Or you could look at properties, there's a thread in this group within the last couple weeks about making constants with properties. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
