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Author	pablogsal
Recipients	dev40573, pablogsal
Date	2019-10-13.00:41:09
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Message-id	<1570927269.34.0.35998456506.issue38458@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Hi Devor, This is not a bug in Python but indeed documented behavior. When you do p=l you are creating a new reference to the same list ([2,3,4]), so changing one changes the other. If you want to make a copy you can do p = l.copy()

Hi Devor,

This is not a bug in Python but indeed documented behavior. When you do

p=l

you are creating a new reference to the same list ([2,3,4]), so changing one changes the other. If you want to make a copy you can do

p = l.copy()

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Date	User	Action	Args
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