funny generator behaviour

[Edvin Fuglebakk]

I have written a generator that puzzles me:

The generator is supposed to create ordered selections of a set of 
objects. repetition of objects is allowed and the selections should be 
of a size determined by a pramter to the generator.

Now, if I try to accummulate the generated selections into a list I get 
some peculiar behaviour that I hope maybe some of you can help me 
understand:

Help much appreciated
-Edvin

#straightforward acumulation. Does not give the expected result
 >>> d=[]
 >>> for f in orderedCombinations([1,2],3):
...     d.append(f)
...
 >>> d
[[1], [2], [1], [2], [1], [2], [1], [2]]

#accumulating shallow copies of the genereated combinations works:
 >>> d=[]
 >>> for f in orderedCombinations([1,2],3):
...     d.append(f[:])
...
 >>> d
[[1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 2], [1, 2, 1], [1, 2, 2], [2, 1, 1], [2, 1, 2], [2, 
2, 1], [2, 2, 2]]


#The generator:
def orderedCombinations(pool, k):
    """
    Generator yielding ordered selections of size k with repetition from 
pool.
    """

    if k == 1:
        for m in pool:
            yield [m]

    if k > 1:

        for m in pool:
            for combo in orderedCombinations(pool, k-1):

                #insert and pop to avoid copying entire list
                combo.insert(0,m)
                yield combo
                combo.pop(0)