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philh
on Nov 6, 2011
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Python: copying a list the right way
My guess upon seeing list(a) for the first time would have been that it returns [a], which is worse than not knowing what it does.
Possibly this is because I've known lisp longer than python.
lubutu
on Nov 6, 2011
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I agree. I write Python all the time, and I would have expected something like list(*a).
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Possibly this is because I've known lisp longer than python.