Hello!
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Robert,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help, this is exactly what I wanted. I still
> don't get why it is necessary to import a special function to perform
> such a standard thing. "import copy" has the affect that suddenly I
> cannot do copy(L) any more, but I have to do copy.copy(L) instead.
> Since copy(L) does not do what I would expect anyway, I will avoid it.
> Frankly, as intuitive as Python is in other respects, this behaviour
> blows my mind.
>
Isn't "a list of lists" just a list of _pointers_ to the lists? If so,
the regular copy operation would just copy that list of pointers to a
new list. Am I right?
Regards,
Vladimir
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