list.append problem?

[Emile van Sebille]

You've rebound a to a different object in the second line.

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Emile van Sebille
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"Bob Parnes" <rparnes at megalink.net> wrote in message
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<snip>
> As another newcomer I discovered this on my own. What is confusing, I
> think, is that it seems to apply only to empty objects. For example
>
> >>> a = b = [1, 2. 3]
> >>> a = [4, 5, 6]
> >>> b
> [1, 2, 3]
> >>> a.append(7)
> >>> a
> [4, 5, 6, 7]
> >>> b
> [1, 2, 3]
>
> In this case a and b are not bound to the same object. It seems to me that
> python treats empty objects differently from assigned objects. Or
something
> like that, I'm probably not articulating it well.
>
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> Bob Parnes
> rparnes at megalink.net