On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I'm using Python 2.4 in Win XP. I was surprised to find the result below. > > >>> a =[4,2,5,8] > >>> b = a > >>> a.sort() > >>> a > [2, 4, 5, 8] > >>> b > [2, 4, 5, 8] > > b no longer has the same value as it began. Apparently to prevent sort from > making it the same I have to resort to copying b into a first? What is the > proper way to retain a variable with the original values of a? > You could use b = a[:].
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