i make a copy of a list, and delete an item from it and it deletes it from the orginal as well, what the hell is going on?!?!?!
#create the staff copy of the roster Roster2 = [] for ShiftLine in Roster: #delete phone number from staff copy Roster2.append(ShiftLine) del Roster2[len(Roster2)-1][1] Roster2 should have nothing to do with Roster, right??? doing a print of both lists confirms that the phone number has been removed from both -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list