Let me rephrase what I wrote a bit.

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:08:11 -0400 Andreas Waldenburger
<use...@geekmail.invalid> wrote:

> > a[0][:]=[1,2,3]  
> Here you're making a list of all elements of the first element of a.
> 
That is, you're making a copy of the first element of a.


> > a[:][0]=[1,2,3]
> >   
> And here you're selecting the first element of all elements of a.
>
That is, you're taking the first element of a copy of a.

I hope this is a little less confusing.

/W

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