douglas bagnall wrote:
Possibly, but it assumes x is a list. For non-list objects a slice can actually return a view of the original. list(x) ensures a shallow copy that is a list. It also works with any iterable x.y = list(x) y = x[:]y = [z for z in x] I think of these, y = list(x) is probably the "right" way.Actually, x[:] has always been standard, and is faster, at least for short lists: douglas@po:~$ python -m timeit -s 'x=range(7)' 'x[:]' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.332 usec per loop douglas@po:~$ python -m timeit -s 'x=range(7)' 'list(x)' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.625 usec per loop douglas
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