Terry Cooper added the comment: Got your message before I got his. Thanks for the reference to python-list.
-----Original Message----- >From: "R. David Murray" <rep...@bugs.python.org> >Sent: Nov 18, 2012 9:39 PM >To: ttcoo...@indy.net >Subject: [issue16498] Unwanted link between volatile and shelve storage > > >R. David Murray added the comment: > >If it "got it" from dBasis[163] via item assignment (say gList1[i1][1] = >dBasis[163]), then yes, Python remembers that. Names just hold pointers to >objects, so after that assignment gList1[i1][1] points to the same object as >dBasis[163] does. If that object is mutable, and you mutate it (as += will >do, if the object is mutable), both names will still reference the same >object, the one that has been changed. > >As Serhiy suggested, you are more likely to get help with this on python-list. > >---------- > >_______________________________________ >Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> ><http://bugs.python.org/issue16498> >_______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16498> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
