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Hi Stan,

I think I saw one question you asked that hasn't been answered yet:

Stan Schymanski wrote:

<snip>
>
> If I construct a list out of two other lists, I usually don't
> expect the original lists to change if I manipulate the resulting
> list. How can I break such links?
<snip>

The way I usually do this is:
sage: L = [1, 2, 3]
sage: LL = L[:]

This makes LL a copy of L instead of reference to it.  As such, I can
manipulate the two completely independently.

Best,
Jason
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