On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:31:12 -0500, J Kenneth King wrote: > Of course I expected that recursive_func() would receive a copy of > weird_obj.words but it appears to happily modify the object.
I am curious why you thought that. What made you think Python should/did make a copy of weird_obj.words when you pass it to a function? This is a serious question, I'm not trying to trap you into something :) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
