Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
>
>When you say [:], do you mean that you copy lists like this:
>>
>l = someList()
>m = []
>m[:] = l
>
Forwarded to python-list, where it belongs. The idiom is actually:
a = [1, 2, 3]
b = a[:]
Aha. I'd never thought of that. Doh.
tom