scared about refrences...

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2006-10-30, SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> def fn(list):
>    list[1] = 0
>
> myList = [1, 2, 3]
> print myList
> fn(myList)
> print myList
>
>>>> [1,2,3]
>>>> [1,0,3]
>
> How can I avoid this?  In this case this is a really simplified
> example but the effects are the same... How do I specify or
> create deep copies of objects that may contain other objects
> that may contain other object that may contain other
> objects....

See 3.18 Copy -- Shallow and deep copy operations.

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