The Problem (very basic, but strange): I have a list holding a population of objects, each object has 5 vars and appropriate funtions to get or modify the vars. When objects in the list have identical vars (like all = 5 for var "a" and all = 10 for var "b" across all vars and objects) and i change
self.mylist[i].change_var_a(5) to a new value, in this case var "a" in object i to 5, now all vars of type "a" in all objects in my list are changed to 5 instead of just var "a" in object mylist[i], which is my goal. if i print self.mylist[i].return_var_a() right after I change var "a" in object i, I get the correct change, however when i print out the whole list, the last change to var "a" in the last object modified takes over for all objects in the list. note: all the vars not being modified must be the same across all objects in the list, the var being modified need not be the same as the one before it in the list (but will be once just one of the identical object are changed). The value changed in the last object var modified takes over for all object vars making them exactly identical. ****If, for example, half the list has objects with random vars init. and the other half is identical, as above, and I perform the same operation, as above, to one of the identical var objects self.mylist[i].change_var_a(5) (to an object that has identicals in the list) all the identicals are changed in the same way as above, however the objects that have different var values are unchanged. What is python doing? Am I missing something? Any ideas at all would be wonderful? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
