Bart Ogryczak a écrit : > On 2008-01-22, citizen Bruno Desthuilliers testified: >>> from copy import copy >>> ### see also deepcopy >>> self.lst = copy(val) >> What makes you think the OP wants a copy ? > > I´m guessing he doesn´t want to mutate original list, while changing > contents of self.lst.
Once again: what makes you think so ? This is a design choice depending on the concrete use case and context - which we don't know zilch about - and by no mean the default behaviour. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list