Re: [Jython-users] RE: [JPython] problem with sort()

[D-Man <ds...@ri...>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:42:08PM +0000, ma...@la... wrote:
| Adam Burke <ada...@gb...> said:
|
| > If you want to keep the unsorted data you need to take a copy, ie, y = x.
| 
| Careful:  y = x doesn't make a copy, it just assigns another
| name for the same list. Use  y = x[:]  to make a copy.

That is only a shallow copy.  If you modify the objects in list 'y'
afterwards, list 'x' will see the change.  If you want a deep copy,
there is a module, "copy" I believe, to handle that.

-D