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Subject: Re: Deep vs. shallow copy?
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Alex van der Spek <zdoor@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> with open(os.path.join('path', 'foo.txt', 'rb') as txt:
>      reader = csv.reader(txt)
>      data = [row.append(year) for row in reader]

Forget deep v. shallow copies. What is the value of the variable year?
And why would you expect list.append to return anything?

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