assignment with [:]

[James Stroud]

James Stroud wrote:
> py> a = [1, 2, 3]
> py> a1 = a
> py> a1[:] = [x*3 for x in a1]
> py> a1
>     [3, 6, 9]
> py> a1
>     [3, 6, 9]


This should have been:

py> a = [1, 2, 3]
py> a1 = a
py> a1[:] = [x*3 for x in a1]
py> a
     [3, 6, 9]
py> a1
     [3, 6, 9]


James


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James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
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Los Angeles, CA  90095

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