Problem with list of dicts and copying

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:09:43 -0300, Cameron Pulsford  
<cameron.pulsford at gmail.com> escribió:

> I'm representing the board as a dictionary, where the keys are
> (x, y) positions, and the values are candidates. So my program goes along
> picking numbers from the list of candidates and then propagating the
> constraints. [...]Basically my boards list should be copies of good  
> boards, and when I need to
> refresh the current board, I want to pull off a copy of the correct one. 
> [...] this isn't happening. I am always modifying the same board.

You have a dictionary whose values are lists, ok? The copy() method  
doesn't make a copy of those lists - only of the dictionary itself. Try  
using the deepcopy function in the copy module:
http://docs.python.org/library/copy.html

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Gabriel Genellina