How to isolate a constant?

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Alan Meyer <ameyer2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Python will copy something only when you tell it to copy. A simple way
>> of copying a list is to slice it:
>>
>> someList = self._someList[:]
>
> And another simple way:
>
>    ...
>    someList = list(self._someList)
>    ...

I generally prefer the latter.  It's clearer, and it guarantees that
the result will be a list, which is usually what you want in these
situations, rather than whatever unexpected type was passed in.

Cheers,
Ian