Hello. I thought I understand this, but apparently I don't :(. I'm missing something very basic and fundamental here, so redirecting me to the related documentation is welcomed as well as providing working code :).
Trivial example which works as expected: >>> x = {'a':123, 'b': 456} >>> y = x >>> x['a']=890 >>> y {'a': 890, 'b': 456} Now, let's try something more sophisticated (it's not real world example, I've made up the problem which I think illustrates my issue). Let's say I've got such a structure: results = [ {'a': 12, 'b': 30 }, {'a': 13, 'b': 40 } ] I'd like to have each row and column in separate object of self-made classes.: class mycolumn(): def __init__(self, resultset, row, col): self.value = resultset[row][col] def __str__(self): return 'Column value: %s' % self.value class myrow(): def __init__(self): self.container = {} def __str__ (self): return self.container results = [ {'a': 12, 'b' :30 }, {'a': 13, 'b' :40 } ] mystruct = [] for row in results: mystruct.append ( myrow() ) for col in row: mystruct [len(mystruct)-1].container[col] = \ mycolumn(results, results.index(row), col) print mystruct[0].container['b'] # 12 results[0]['b'] = 50 # print mystruct[0].container['b'] # also 12 :/ In other words, I'd like to "map" the results to myrow and mycolumn objects, and have these new objects' values changed when I change "results". I hope I explained it well enough :). Thank you for your time. -- | And Do What You Will be the challenge | http://apcoln.linuxpl.org | So be it in love that harms none | http://biznes.linux.pl | For this is the only commandment. | http://www.juanperon.info `---* JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *---' http://www.naszedzieci.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list