Cool little known kludge:
to do a deep-copy of list a, simply do:
a[:]
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Alan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [Darragh]
>> Why does python return a list rather than a string in this case?
>>
>>>>> mystr = "./test.py"
>>>>> print mystr.split('/')
>> ['.', 'test.py']
>>>>> args = mystr.split('/')
>>>>> print args[-1:]
>> ['test.py']
>
> Because you asked for a slice, by specifying two indices of the array,
> e.g. args[-1:]
>
> If you just want a string, ask for an element
>
>>>> print args[-1]
> 'test.py'
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan.
>
> >
>
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