dictionary containing a list

[Ben]

Hello...

I have set up a dictionary into whose values I am putting a list. I
loop around and around filling my list each time with new values, then
dumping this list into the dictionary. Or so I thought...

It would appear that what I am dumping into the dictionary value is
only a pointer to the original list, so after all my iterations all I
have is a dictionary whose every value is equal to that of the list the
final time I looped around :-(

Is there a way to acheive what I was attempting ? I have done something
almost identical with classes in a list before, and in that case a new
instance was created for each list entry...
I hope this makes some sense, and doesn't seem to head bangingly
simple...
Cheers,

Ben

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fr*****@python ware.comwrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

One of the fascinating things about c.l.py is that sometimes a questin
will be posted that makes almost no sense to me, and somebody else will
casually read the OP's mind, home in on the issue and provide a useful
and relevant answer.

if the assertions made by some about the documentation's unsuit-
ability for some are in fact true, that's probably some kind of
natural selection in action.

</F>

LOL - Whining about documentation is what programmers do - its driven by the
"fact" that the docs and the implementation are "never" in sync, except on
something that is either trivial, or as old as the hills...

And it does not matter if the software is free and open source, or bought at
great expense - there are always these differences - sometimes niggly, and often
major - it sometimes looks as if the docs were a statement of intent, with the
implementation taking a left turn at the first crossroads.

- Hendrik
- Hendrik