[New-bugs-announce] [issue7823] multiplying a list of dictionaries

Andrew Hays report at bugs.python.org
Sun Jan 31 22:18:27 CET 2010


New submission from Andrew Hays <me at andrewhays.net>:

[{}]*3 should produce a list of dictionaries that are 3 length long, which it does.  However, one would expect that if you assign something to the keyword 'abc' in the first dicitonary (e.g., x[0]['abc'] = 'def') that the other dictionaries would remain blank (e.g.,  x = [{'abc': 'def'}, {}, {}].  However, it appears that each dictionary is filled (e.g., x = [{'abc':'def'}, {'abc':'def'}, {'abc':'def'}]).

Creating a list of dictionaries like this [{}, {}, {}] or appending a dictionary to a list like this list.append({}) does NOT produce this same effect, it produces the desired effect.

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components: Build
messages: 98628
nosy: Andrew.Hays
severity: normal
status: open
title: multiplying a list of dictionaries
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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