Ben wrote: > I have set up a dictionary into whose values I am putting a list. I > loop around and around filling my list each time with new values, then > dumping this list into the dictionary. Or so I thought... > > It would appear that what I am dumping into the dictionary value is > only a pointer to the original list, so after all my iterations all I > have is a dictionary whose every value is equal to that of the list the > final time I looped around :-( > > Is there a way to acheive what I was attempting ?
Where you "loop around ... filling [your] list", use a new list every time. You can create a new empty list with "[]". -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
