Re: Dict Copy & Compare

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:40:53 +0100, Tim Golden wrote:

Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
I'm looking for a little advice on dicts, firstly I need to learn how to
copy a dict, I suppose I could just something like.

Self.newdict = self.olddict

But I fear that this only creates a reference rather than an actual copy,
this means that as soon as I clear out the old one, the new one will
effectively be empty. What's the best way to ACTUALY copy a dict into a new
variable?

Unless you have specialised needs, you can just say:

d2 = dict (d1)



Or you can say

d2 = d1.copy()



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Steven D'Aprano

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