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Subject: Re: How to isolate a constant?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:08:24 -0700
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:05:49 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Python will copy something only when you tell it to copy. A simple way
> >> of copying a list is to slice it:
> >>
> >> someList = self._someList[:]
> >
> > And another simple way:
> >
> >    ...
> >    someList = list(self._someList)
> >    ...
> 
> I generally prefer the latter.  It's clearer, and it guarantees that
> the result will be a list, which is usually what you want in these
> situations, rather than whatever unexpected type was passed in.
> 

Where's the line form to split those who'd prefer the first vs the
second result in this sample <G>:

>>> unExpected = "What about a string"
>>> firstToLast = unExpected[:]
>>> repr(firstToLast)
"'What about a string'"
>>> explicitList = list(unExpected)
>>> repr(explicitList)
"['W', 'h', 'a', 't', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'o', 'u', 't', ' ', 'a', ' ', 's',
't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g']"
>>> 
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