Persist objects in a LIST

[John Zhao]

I am new to Python, and just learned that Python list is just a container of object reference.   

In the example below,  bDict needs to be just a temporary object, constructed at run time and then be added to aList.       At the end, aList will contain n objects.    

Is there a clean way to do that?

Many thanks, 

John

$ ipython
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Python 2.7.9 (default, Sep  5 2015, 07:20:36)
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In [1]: aList = []
In [2]: bDict = {}
In [3]: bDict['instance_name']='SERVER_TIER'
In [4]: aList.append(bDict)
In [5]: print aList
[{'instance_name': 'SERVER_TIER'}]
In [6]: bDict.clear()
In [7]: print aList
[{}]