List Problem

[Littlefield, Tyler]

On 9/23/2012 3:44 PM, jimbo1qaz wrote:
> On Sunday, September 23, 2012 2:31:48 PM UTC-7, jimbo1qaz wrote:
>> I have a nested list. Whenever I make a copy of the list, changes in one affect the other, even when I use list(orig) or even copy the sublists one by one. I have to manually copy each cell over for it to work.
>>
>> Link to broken code: http://jimbopy.pastebay.net/1090401
> No, actually that's the OK code. http://jimbopy.pastebay.net/1090494 is the broken one.

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.

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