Python lists

[Evan Driscoll]

On 12/30/2012 4:19 PM, Hans Mulder wrote:
> If it's okay to modify the original list, you can simply do:
> 
> l[0] = split(l[0], ", ")
> 
> If modifying the original is not okay, the simple solution would
> be to copy it first:
> 
> l2 = l
> l2[0] = split(l2[0], ", ")

Um, that doesn't copy the list:

>>> l = ["C100, C117", "X7R ..."]
>>> l2 = l
>>> import string
>>> l2[0] = string.split(l2[0], ", ")
>>> l
[['C100', 'C117'], 'X7R ...']
>>> l2
[['C100', 'C117'], 'X7R ...']

To make a copy of a list you can either use slice syntax (l2 = l[:]) or
call the list constructor (l2 = list(l)).


Evan


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> Hope this helps,
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> -- HansM
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