[Tutor] Copying list contents

[Kalle Svensson]

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[Guillermo Fernandez]
> Is there a way of copying lists cleanly, or will I have to create a
> recursive list copy function?

There is the deepcopy function in the copy module.
http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-copy.html

Also note that to perform a shallow copy on a list, a common idiom is
to use slice notation:

>>> list2 = list1[:] # creates a shallow copy of list1

Peace,
  Kalle
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