Interesting "gotme"
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Fri Jan 19 00:29:21 EST 2001
Andrew Henshaw wrote:
> I had a list that I wanted to sort, except that I wanted the 0th
> element to
> stay put. So I smugly coded:
>
> a[1:].sort()
>
> and went on my merry way. Later, I tracked down a bug to the fact
> that I
> really had not sorted a[1:]. Of course, I had sorted a copy of a[1:],
> which
> was immediately discarded.
Yep. List slices make copies.
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