On Nov 21, 9:40 am, J Kenneth King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, providing a shallow (or deep as necessary) copy makes it > work, I'm curious as to why the value passed as a parameter to a > function outside the class is passed a reference rather than a copy.
You're passing neither a reference nor a copy, you're passing the object (in this case a list) directly: http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
