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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2010-03-21 23:13:07 (GMT)
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@@ -482,6 +482,12 @@ concatenated and so on::
>>> 3*a[:3] + ['Boo!']
['spam', 'eggs', 100, 'spam', 'eggs', 100, 'spam', 'eggs', 100, 'Boo!']
+All slice operations return a new list containing the requested elements. This
+means that the following slice returns a shallow copy of the list *a*::
+
+ >>> a[:]
+ ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234]
+
Unlike strings, which are *immutable*, it is possible to change individual
elements of a list::