How to isolate a constant?

Tue Oct 25 16:05:49 EDT 2011

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Alan Meyer <ameyer2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Python will copy something only when you tell it to copy. A simple way
>> of copying a list is to slice it:
>>>> someList = self._someList[:]
>> And another simple way:
>>    ...
>    someList = list(self._someList)
>    ...

I generally prefer the latter. It's clearer, and it guarantees that
the result will be a list, which is usually what you want in these
situations, rather than whatever unexpected type was passed in.
Cheers,
Ian