Steve Holden wrote: > What I will repeat, however, is that while there is a *slight* > difference is semantics between > > s = "some string" > s1 = s > > and > > s = "some string" > s1 = copy.copy(s) > > that difference is only to ensure that s and s1 point to different > copies of the same string in the latter case, whereas in the former case > s and s1 point to the same string.
No, both "point" to the same string: >>> import copy >>> s = "some string" >>> s1 = s >>> s1 is s True >>> s2 = copy.copy(s) >>> s2 is s True copy.copy() is just an expensive no-op here. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
