Strange behavior related to value / reference

[Aahz]

In article <626f24e5-4d8e-416c-b3ed-dc56a88dc35b at s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
Lambda  <stephenhsu9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>def matrix_power(m, n):
>  result = m[:]
>  print result is m

Use copy.deepcopy()
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