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On 17/10/2012 05:16, 88888 Dihedral wrote:
> What you really want is b=a.copy()
> not b=a to disentangle two objects.
>
> __eq__ is used in the comparison operation.
>

The winner Smartest Answer by a Bot Award 2012 :)

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