List Problem

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Littlefield, Tyler
<tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
> I've not been following this thread fully, but why not just use x=list(y) to
> copy the list?
> The issue is that when you assign i=[1,2,3] and then j = i, j is just a
> reference to i, which is why you change either and the other changes.

The problem is with lists as elements of that list, so the key is deepcopy.

ChrisA