Re: list IndexError

From: Steven Bethard (steven.bethard_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:15:37 GMT

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> Ah, my mistake, I missed the [:] after the source argument that was
> taking a copy... which brings up the question, how many other people
> would miss it?

Too many. This is why I greatly prefer

    list(lst)

to

    lst[:]

It's also clearer to me. Do I really want a "slice" of the list? No, I
want a list copy of the list...

Steve

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