Can't create list of dictionaries

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> sophie_newbie <paulgeeleher at gmail.com> (sn) wrote:

>sn> Hi there,
>sn> I've got a function that returns a dictionary, I need to loop and
>sn> return 1000 dictionaries and append them to a list, but the thing is
>sn> that when I do the list.append(funtThatReturnsDict()) the resulting
>sn> only ever has 1 dictionary attached to it, even after running the
>sn> append function 1000 times!

>sn> I've tried using dict.copy() on the dictionary that was returned from
>sn> the function but this didn't work either.

>sn> And the function is definately returning different dictionaries each
>sn> time as I can see that when I print them.

>sn> I know this is something to do with the dictionries being stored as
>sn> references but I've no idea how to fix it seeing as the copy()
>sn> function didn't work.

You better post some real code. 
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