Is this a refrence issue?

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

KraftDiner wrote:
> I understand that everything in python is a refrence....
>
> I have a small problem..
>
> I have a list and want to make a copy of it and add an element to the
> end of the new list,
> but keep the original intact....
>
> so:
> tmp = myList
>   

tmp = myList is a shallow copy



> tmp.append(something)
> print tmp, myList
>  
> should be different...
>   
Therefore it shouldn't be different.

What you could do is make a second list
tmp = []

And then use the extend method:

tmp.extend(myList)
tmp.append(someEntry)

This would give you what you want, and there's more than one way to do this.

-carl

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