understanding list scope

[mbezzi at landi.it]

On Sep 21, 7:48 pm, Peter Pearson <ppear... at nowhere.invalid> wrote:

> FWIW, since I started following this newsgroup, I've noticed
> that I no longer have those crises that revolve around the depth
> of a copy.  I conjecture that they resulted from non-pythonic
> style.  Try following this newsgroup for a while, and you might
> see a lot of startlingly elegant ways of doing things.
>
> --
> To email me, substitute nowhere->spamcop, invalid->net.

I know the code is really ugly but I just make a quick and dirty
snippet to ask for help.
I should have wrapped the code between <bad code></bas code> tags ;-)

Alex