Scratch everything I said, copy() does work. Made a wee mistake somewhere else.
Apologies if I've wasted anyones time! On Apr 10, 12:36 pm, sophie_newbie <paulgeele...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a function that returns a dictionary, I need to loop and > return 1000 dictionaries and append them to a list, but the thing is > that when I do the list.append(funtThatReturnsDict()) the resulting > only ever has 1 dictionary attached to it, even after running the > append function 1000 times! > > I've tried using dict.copy() on the dictionary that was returned from > the function but this didn't work either. > > And the function is definately returning different dictionaries each > time as I can see that when I print them. > > I know this is something to do with the dictionries being stored as > references but I've no idea how to fix it seeing as the copy() > function didn't work. > > Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
