Carsten Haese wrote: > L is [1,2] before the append. After the append, L is [1,2,L], which is > [1,2,[1,2,L]], which is [1,2,[1,2,[1,2,L]]] etc into infinity. L > literally contains itself after the append.
Ah, this perfectly explains it now! I guess I was dancing around this fact, but now that you've typed it out, I see that L actually changed in place! Thanks guys! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
